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ARMS OF FORSYTH OF FAILZERTON 
County Ayr. Scotland. 



ARMS OF FORSYTH OF TAILZERTON 
County Stirling, Scotland. 



The black two-headed 
eagle of the Cavlovin- 
gian Dynasty, with cor- 
onet between the heads, 
was the ensign of the 
Seigneur de Forsath, 
Viscount de Fronsac, 
son of the Emperor 
Charlemagne and broth- 
er of l>ouis. King of 
Aquitania in S25. A. D. 
The modern shield of 
Forsyth is emblazoned 
on the eagle in this illus- 
tration, to which have 




been added the crest 
and motto of the Fail- 
zerton branch as repre- 
senting the eldest line, 
derived through m a r • 
riage of the heiress of 
Margaret Forsyth and 
Capt. Jehan Denys 
with Capt. James For- 
saith of F a i 1 z e r t o n , 
whose only daughter 
married Walter Forsyth, 
I 'rovost of Glasgow 
College, in 1678. 





ARMS OF FORSYTH OF THE FIRS 
Mortimer, Berkshire, England. 



ARMS OF FORSYTH OFTHE COUNTIES 
of Cronnarty and Elgin, Scotland. 



MEMORIAL 



OF THE FAMILY OF 



FORSYTH' DE FRONSAC 



BY 



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FREDERIC GREGORY FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

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BOSTON 

Press of S. J. Parkhill & Ccjmpanv 

1903 






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We are indebted to the courtesy of the Dana Estes Co. 
for four electros ; to the Donahoe Magazine for two, and 
to the Plant Steamship Co. for one. 



ARISTOCRACY 

Page 260, Vol. II, of Professor Laycock's '■'■Mind and Brain " 
reads : "The highest evolution of what I have termed ' Primordia 
Instincts ' is seen in the communistic instincts of two classes of 
animals which are at the head of their respective archetypal 
branches: e/Zs^., the social insects — the most highly developed of 
the invertebrate ; and the social man — the most highly developed 
of the vertebrate. In truth, the family instincts are the solid 
foundation of sQciety. Hence it is, in proportion as they are 
active in a nation, in the same proportion is its social organization 
vigorous and complete." 

Aristocracies are formed by Nature, by the general 
advancement of the fittest. This is accomplished genealogi- 
cally, and genealogy is the science on which aristocracy rests. 
From the study of genealogy arises the science of heredity, 
of the science of psychic transmissions. 

Nobilities, on the other hand, are not formed by Nature, 
but are recognitions, by man and his government, of aristocratic 
products. 

Nobility and aristocracy are not alw^ays the same, yet they 
are related. An aristocracy does not exist in vigor without 
producing a nobility, and a nobility, even though at first formed 
of unaristocratic products, if continued in a proper manner, 
makes itself respectable and conservative. 

Of aristocracy, though containing different elements, there 
is but one description. It is an organic body, in a community, 
bred to eminence and renown by many generations of honor- 
able career and exalted position. 

Of nobility there are three formations : I, by the sword ; 
II, by the pen ; III, by landed estates ; in other words, by tal- 
ent recognized in individuals, regardless of family connection. 



iv FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

I, in war; II, in state-craft and science; and III, in long 
territorial succession. 

Aristocracy gives the firm ground-work of character, nobility, 
the transitory mark of distinction. The ancient king was not 
always from the most eminent family, and when the king 
grants titles to his servants aristocracy is destroyed. The 
aristocracy has always, on this account, held itself superior to 
any order of nobility that is not founded on aristocratic 
products. 

The aristocratic power in families, in a state makes itself 
manifest by creating a little kingdom for each of the families. 
This little kingdom, erected on a few acres of land, and known 
as the family estate, is cherished, by the members of that 
family, as a territory peculiar to itself. A family estate is 
different, in this respect, from the estate of any particular 
rich man, or corporation. The aristocratic family has changed 
the acres it occupies, by the fairy wand of its sentiment, 
by the power of its individuality, into a territorial realm that 
bears evidence to its renown. A state that encourages fami- 
lies of this sort to hold territorial positions strengthens itself 
in the hearts of its best people, and provides a barrier against 
the restlessness of anarchy that an unsympathetic democracy 
always engenders. 

F, G. Forsyth de Fronsac. 



CHIVALRY 



Who says the knight shall come amain, 
With gilded mail and trappings vain, 
His pride in pomp alone to glow. 
For wealth, his energy o'erflow ? 
They estimate his worth too small, 
Who think that virtues near him pall : - 
It is by them alone he lives : 
They are the gems of Chivalry. 



II 



They form the charge he honors most : 
They give to him his proudest boast : 
Their honor, gentleness and grace 
Shine, like the sunlight, from his face. 
With frail timidity removed. 
By them his worth to Valor proved, 
Theirs is the name for which he strives 
To gain the fame of Chivalry. 

Ill 

Such is the need of every state : 
Without it all its days are late. 
So faintly shines their light of dawn. 
That night and day seem almost one, 
And deeds of darkness hold their sway. 
When Honor has not strength to stay — 
And Honor in some form must brood, 
Or else there's never Chivalry. 



VI FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

IV 

That form Humanity must own, 
And person is the seed that's sown. 
From seedling must the flower expand - 
Grass sged but grasses can command, 
And roses ne'er descend to grass, 
Though frequent soiled and torn, alas ! 
And ruined in the course of life, 
And so declines their Chivalry. 



V 



But children of the rare rose born. 
If Chivalry their lives adorn. 
Have in them all that generous mood, 
Whose ceaseless virtue keeps them good. 
No moth, corrupting, mars their state : 
Misfortune cannot make them hate 
A noble cause — though beaten ill: 
It is the cause of Chivalry. 



VI 



Let knighthood only be for those 
Whose fame is like the rare, white rose — 
To lead them to an honored state ; — 
Those men, whose lives are true and great : 
Whose deeds, though crowned not, like Success, 
Reach hearts by motives pure and bless 
Them with a love of right that's strong 
And 'stablished as their Chivalry. 

F. G. Forsyth de Fronsac. 




CHARLEMAGNE PRESIDING AT THE SCHOOL OF THE PALACE 



HISTORY AND GENEALOGY 



OF THE 



FAMILY OF FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 



'PART I — HISTORY 

ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY AND RACE 

THE name Forsatli, afterwards ForsytJi, is first mentioned 
in Froissart's Chronicles of the Middle Ages in the 
chapter devoted to the invasion of Aquitania in 1344 by the 
English army of the Earl of Derby, who commanded in 
the name of the French family of Plantagenet on the Eng- 
lish throne in their attempt, as descendants from the ancient 
kings of France, to possess themselves of the throne of 
France also. All the manuscripts of Froissart in the English 
Collection spell the name Forsath, and Forsathe. The trans- 
lation of two manuscript copies in the French Collection spell 
the name F"orsach and Torsach.* As Froissart, the historian, 
was in the service of the Plantagenets when he wrote his 
Chronicles and as the best and most numerous of his MSS. 
remained in England and are the originals, they are the 
ones most worthy to be consulted. 

La Grajide Encyclopedic dc France describes Fronsac as an 
ancient district of France in Aquitania, bordering on the 
River Dordogne ; its history reaches back to the Roman 
period. This history says that a castle — which is discovered 
in Froissart to have been named Forsath — was built by the 

* Doubtless the commentator forgot the mark which makes a <^ an c/ in his MS. 



2 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Emperor Charlemagne in 768 on the Tertre (or hill) of Fron- 
sac. It was built by the Emperor as a restraining influence 
on the people of the West whom he and his Franks had con- 
quered. 

Lavisse, in the Histoire Generale, Vol. I, pp. 310, describes 
this castle on the Tertre de Fronsac as the most powerful of 
Western France and as the headquarters of the military dis- 
trict of the West. Over this district the Emperor put his 
son Louis as King of Aquitania, who became afterwards 
Emperor on the death of his father, Charlemagne, while the 
first lord or Seigneur de Forsath, Vicomte de Fronsac and 
military governor of the district, was of the same imperial 
family ( Carlo vingian) and son of the Emperor Charlemagne. 
The pedigree of Charlemagne from the King of Austrasia is 
as follows : ■ — 

\. Ansigise, King of Austrasia, in 650 a. d. married 
Sainte Beggipe, daughter of Pepin de Landen. His son : 

n. Pepin (V Heristal, Duke of France, married Pleetrude, 
daughter of Prince Hugobert, in 706. His son : 

HI. Charles Martel, Duke of France, 725, married Sonis- 
hilda, niece of Odilon, Duke of Bavaria. His son : 

IV. Pepin le Bref, King of France, 752, married Bertrade, 
daughter of Caribert, Comte de Laon. His son : 

V. Charlemagne, Emperor of the Romans and King of 
the Franks. 

THE RACE 

The Franks were an army of knights and nobles of differ- 
ent European races confederated together. Although the 
greater number of them were of Germanic origin, yet senti- 
ment rather than kinship was the basis of their organization. 
The name Frank meant 'free'' — not in the modern sense of 
free, i. e., not enslaved, but in the ancient sense of free, i. e., 
not inferior to a seigneur, not bound by fealty to a superior ; 
in other words, they recognized no lords as their superiors 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 3 

because they were lords, a confederated nobility, themselves. 
So the Franks when they conquered Gaul, named it France, 
and became the nobility of th-^t country. Spreading out in 
later times, under William the Conqueror, with his Normans 
of similar blood, they became as well the nobility of Eng- 
land, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, as the old records show, 
and every royal family on the throne of Western Europe of 
to-day is derived from the confederation of the Franks, either 
from those who remained in Germany or from those who 
settled in France. There may be some who object and 
speak of the Normans as furnishing a large coterie to the 
British nobility, but the Normans themselves for two genera- 
tions had been affiliated with the Franks in France. The 
Franks continued their principle of an armed nobility — - of 
Free Knights — when they constituted the Order of Chivalry 
— the noblest organization which ever existed, which extended 
from France over Christendom, which " caused the heart to 
expand like a flower in the sunshine, beautified glory with 
generosity and smoothed even the rugged brow of War." 
The principle of this Chivalry became the principle of their 
descendants and gives to family history its greatest value as 
a means of reenforcing the same sentiment in the race by 
the record of its honors and distinctions. 

The difference between this nobility of the Frankish insti- 
tution and that of the Anglo-Saxons is in the difference 
between the meaning of nobility in ancient France and in 
England. In France wealth added nothing to nobility. 
Indeed, as Montesquieu said : " All is lost when the lucra- 
tive profession of the note-shaver and speculator by its riches 
becomes a profession of honor." In England, nobility cannot 
exist without wealth to maintain it. Again, in ancient 
France, if a family is noble, all its members and all their 
descendants in the family name are of the noblesse, while the 
eldest line male bears the title and inherits the manor-house. 
In modern England, if a family is noble, only the eldest son. 



4 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

the possessor of the title, is noble ; the younger sons and 
their offspring do not in any way belong to the nobility, but 
are allowed to sink into the commonality, and, after a few 
generations, cease to participate in any distinctions of the 
eldest line. Again, the Anglo-Saxons, with a commercial 
cynicism that is appalling, load a tax on the honors and 
armorials of families, while the French monarchy granted 
exemptions and privileges. 



CADET LINE MALE OF THE SEIGNEURS 

DE FORSATH, VICOMTES DE FRONSAC 




ARMS BEFORE I 488 

In the line of Charlemagne and descended from the first 
Seigneur de Forsath, Vicomte de Fronsac, was : 

The Cadet de Forsath, who in 1236 accompanied the 
Princess Eleanor, daughter of Ra}mond Berenger, Comte de 
Provence, on her journey to P^ngland to become the wife of 
King Henry III. His son : 

William de F'orsath (spelled Frisaith in Stoddart's 
" .W/Z/.s-// y4r;//jr ") took oath of fealty to King P^dward I in 
1296. His son : 

Robert de Forsyth, moved into Stirlingshire, Scotland, 
and his son : 

OsBERT de P'orsvth, was among those who supported the 
pretensions of Robert de Bruce to the throne of Scotland, 

5 



6 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

and after the Battle of Bannockburn received for fealty from 
that personage who had become king of Scotland : " One 
hundred solidates in terrge tenemento de Salkill in the Sheriff- 
dom of Stirling." The pedigree of his family is giv^en partly 
in Stoddart's *' Scottish Arms." His sons were : Robert 
(below) and William, baillee of Edinburgh 1364. 

Robert de Forsyth, son of Osbert, Constable of Stirling 
Castle for the king in 1368. A report of his rendering the 
customs of Stirling to the king is in the Exchequer Rolls of 
Scotland, as well as his receiving lOO;^ per annum from the 
king for the lands of Polmaise-Marischall, County Stirling. 
His son was : 

John de Forsyth, who succeeded his father as Crown 
officer at Stirling, mentioned in the Exchequer Rolls in 1379. 
His son : 

William de Forsyth, who succeeded his father as Crown 
officer at Stirling, mentioned in the Exchequer Rolls of 1399. 
His sons were : Robert (below) and William, baron of Nydie, 
in Fyfeshire. 

[In 1492 the arms of Forsyth, baron of Nydie, appear in the Heraldic 
MS. of Sir James Balfour, Lyon King of Arms for Scotland. The 
arms are described as : " Gules, a cheveron engrailed argent, between 3 
griffins segreant or." Again, in the MS. of 1603, the arms of Forsyth 
of Nydie are given as : " Or, 3 griffins segreant azure, armed and mem- 
bered vert." In Sir David Lindsay's MS. of 1542, "argent, a cheveron 
engrailed gule, between 3 griffins segreant vert." The last of this 
branch of the family recorded in Fyfeshire as holding the barony is 
Alexander Forsyth, baron of Nydie in 1604.] 

Robert de Forsyth, son of William, the Crown officer 
at Stirling, obtained the barony of Dykes in County Lan- 
ark. His name is attached as witness to a charter, in 
1429, of Robert Keith, Earl Marischall of Scotland. His 
sons were : John (below) and Thomas, canon of Glasgow in 
1487. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC ^ 

John de Forsyth, son of Robert, baron of Dykes, ac- 
quired the lands of Gilcairnstorm, County Aberdeen. He 
married a daughter of Sir James Douglas. His son was : 

David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes (1488). He was the 
last of the family to bear the ancient arms of the Seigneurs 
de Forsath (de Fronsac), which are described in Stoddart's 
''Scottish Anns'' : "Argent, between 3 cross-crosslets, gules, 
a fesse vert charged with 3 lozenges of the field." His son 
was : 

David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes in 1507. His sons 
were : John (below), 'James, lord of the Monastery of Dum- 
blane in 1560, and Henry, rector of Munnymusk in 1642. 

John de Forsyth, son of David, lord of Dykes and of 
Hallhill in 1540. In 1543 he transferred his estate of Glen- 
cairnstorm to Lord Gordon of Pitwig. He married in France, 
Louise de Ravenel, a descendant of the Chevalier Pierre de 
Ravenel, Seigneur of Broys, Saint Remy and Saint Martin 
de Nepz in 1440, whose arms were: "Gules, 6 crescents 
along the flancs of the shield, 2, 2 and 2 each surmounted by 
a star, or, and in the base of the shield another star of the 
same." His son was : 

David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes, in 1571, born in 
P'rance. According to the Act of Scotch Parliament (p. 79, 
1594), it recites a commission formerly given to David For- 
syth of Dykes, to have charge of assessing the beer and malt 
tax. His children were: i. Marguerite, married Capt. Jehan 
Denys of Honfleur, France ; 2, James, of Dykes, Commis- 
sioner of Glasgow, who died without issue ; 3, William 
(below) ; 4, Matthew, laird of Auchengrey, an advocate ; 
5, Robert, laird of Failzerton in County Ayr, an officer 
in the French service, who spelled the name Forsaith. 
He married in P" ranee a lady of the name of Chabot, 
and had a son, Capt. James Forsaith, at one time in the 
French service, but who was a prisoner of war in England 
in 1654, escaping the 17th May of that same year, who 



8 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

had married his cousin at Honfleur, F'rance, Marguerite 
Denys de Fronsac. 

William Forsyth, son of David, lord of Dykes, was 
commissioner to parliament for Forres in 1621. His children 
were : i, William, whose daughter Barbara married Baron 
Rello. The special returns of Lanark January 18, 1640, has 
the following : " Heres William Forsyth de Dykes, patris, in 
40 solidates terrarum antiqui extentus de Gayne, 40 solidates 
de Untheos, infra dominium de Newburgh et baronium de 
Munckland." 2, John (below) ; 3, James, from whom are the 
Forsyths of Cromarty and Elgin (see p. 26). 

John Forsyth, son of William, member of Parliament for 
Cullen and one of the signers of the commission to meet the 
English parliament in 1652 He married a daughter of Sir 
William Livingston of Kilsyth. His sons were: Rev. James 
of Tailzerton, County Stirling, and Walter, provost of the 
colle£:e of Glaso:ow. 




FORSYTH OF TAILZERTON 

Rev. Jaimes Forsyth,* of Tailzerton (son of John and 
Miss Livingston, Forsyth, see p. 8), inherited the lands of 
Tailzerton and Kilsyth Easter from his mother. He was 
minister to the church at Airth in 1661, and to that at 
Stirling in 1665. He married, ist, a daughter and heiress of 
Bruce.f Laird of Gavell, cadet of Bruce of Airth through a 
daughter of Sir William de Airth of that ilk, 2d, Marion 
Elphinstone. Lssue, a son : 

James Forsyth, J his successor, of Tailzerton, Member of 
the Council of Stirling, in compan)- with the Duke of Hamil- 
ton, Earl of Calender, Lords Elphinston and Livingston of 



* Act. Scot. Pari. (1661-5). 

t General Armory (Burke), vide Bruce and Airth. Rev. James Forsyth was a 
famous preacher. Sermons published at London, 1666. 

J Ret. Scot. Abbrev. Inq. Spec. Stirling (277), Sept. i, 1676: " Heres tallia et pro- 
visionis Magistri Jacobi Forsyth de Tailzertoune, magistri vobi Dei apud ecclesium de 
Stirling ... in terris de Polinais, vocatis Polinais-Tailzertoun pro principal!, ter- 
ris de Kilsyth : Easter in speciale warrantum earundam." 

9 



lO FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Kilsyth, the Earl of Mar being the convenor (1685). In 1696 
he sat in Parliament, as " Forsyth of Gavell." Children : 
I. Rebecca * II. William, see below. 

William Forsyth| (son of James Bruce Forsyth, as 
above) was born 1687; granted freedom of Glasgow, 1735 ; 

married Elspet, daughter of Gerard of Walkerhill, 

County Aberdeen. A son was : 

William Forsyth, born December 18, 1721 ; granted free- 
dom of Glasgow, 1746; married Jean, daughter of George 
Phynn,| Lord of the Corse of Monelly. Issue : 

1. George, born April 2, 1756; married a Miss Tay- 

brook. 

2. William, born April 5, 1756. His daughter mar- 

ried Prof. Means, D.D., and was mother of Rev. 
W. Means, D.D., of Disblair, County Aberdeen. 

3. Alexander,^ born November 17, 1758. 

4. James, born June 23, 1759 ! Captain of Dragoons; 

married Aun, daughter of John, 9th Baron Col- 
ville. II 

5. Thomas, born March, 1761, presented by Lord 

Nelson, February 2, 1802, with his picture, now 
at the Quebec Garrison Club. 

6. JoJin (of whom hereafter). See Forsyth of Eccles- 

greig Castle. 
J. Joseph, \)0\-\\ June 24, 1764; came from Huntley, 
County Aberdeen, to Kingston, Canada, about 
1787; married Alice, daughter of Maj. James 

*Inq. Spec. Stirling (342), April 26, 1699: " Heres tallia et provisionis, Jacobi 
Forsyth, alias Bruce de Gavell, patris in terris de Polinais hunc vocatis Polinais-Tail- 
zertoun .pro. principali, et in speciale warrantum eanindam in terris de Kilsyth: 
Easter." 

t Ecclesgreig_MSS.: Crest of Tailzerton, a demi-griffin vert, armed and membered gu. 
Motto : " Restaurator Ruiniae." 

J Another daughter of Geo. Phynn was mother to Right Hon. Edward Ellice, 
M.P. 

§ Ecclesgreig MSS. 

II Burke's Peerage (Colville), 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC II 

Robbins, R. A. He was Colonel of Militia. 
Issue : 
n. William, died unmarried. 

b. James Bell, born December 25, 1803; married in 

1828 F'anny, daughter of the Hon. Matthew 
Bell of Quebec, whose father and grandfather 
were of Berwick on Tweed, and had : 
I, Col. Joseph Bell (see p. 80), 2, John Bell and 
James Bell died young, 3, Fanny Bell, mar- 
ried John Burstall of Quebec [whose chil- 
dren are John Forsyth Burstall, London and 
Quebec, and Capt. Harry Burstall of the 
Royal Canadian Artillery in 1903, serving 
with the South African Constabulary in com- 
mand of the District of Rustanburg, Trans- 
vaal. He has been mentioned four times for 
bravery and coolness in the fields, especially 
by Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener], 
4, Frances, 5, lulith, 6, Amy, 7, Alice, 8, 
Mabel Kate, married John (j. Ross of the 
Highlands. 

c. Eueretta Jane, married William Forsyth of 

Ecclesgreig. 

d. John Richardson of Kingston, returned to the fam- 

ily house at Huntley, which he inherited. He 
married his cousin, Louisa Forsyth, and has issue. 
e\ Mary Ann, married David Burnet, Major of Que- 
bec Cavalry in Rebellion of 1837-8, whose 
residence, " Etrick," is named from his ances- 
tral place in County Aberdeen. 
/. Thomas, Captain 3 2d Foot, served in the Rebel- 
lion of 1837-8. 
8. Robert* born 1766; Ensign 6ist Foot, 1783; 

* Record of Services of Maj. Robert Forsyth, 60th Rifles. No. 7353. F. 214. War 
Office. London, England. 



12 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

68th Foot, 1785 ; 720! Foot, 1785 ; Lieutenant 
72d Foot, 1787; Captain 112th Foot, 1795; 2d 
BattaUon 90th Foot, 1795; 60th Foot, 1795; 
Major 60th Foot, 1797 ; retired from service by 
the sale of his commission, March 6, 1802 ; died 
1824. 
9. David,* born September 2, 1767; married a Miss 
Jackson, of Kendall, Westmoreland, England. 
Issue : 
a. William, married Susan, daughter of Judge Leigh 
(sister of Maj. H. Leigh, 98th Foot), of Madras 
Presidency. 
b James, Lieut. R.A. 

c. George. 

d. Henry. 

e. Emily, married William Skinner, Barrister, 

nephew of Right Rev. William Skinner, D.D., 
Lord Primate of Scotland and Kishop of 
Aberdeen. 

10. Morris, born January 27, 1771 ; minister to the 

church at Mortlach ; married Isabella, daughter 
of James Donaldson, of Kinairdie. 

11. Margaret, born May 3, 1777. 



* Ecclesgreig MSS. 



FORSYTH OF ECCLESGREIG CASTLE 

COUNTY KINCARDINE, SCOTLAND 

[By royal license the Forsyths of Ecciesgreig added the name of 
Grant in 1824, and quartered the Grant arms with that of Forsyth.] 

John Forsyth, see p. 10 (son of William and Jean 
Phynn), was born December 8, 1762. He came to New 
York about the beginning of the American Revolution, but 
would not renounce his allegiance to the king, and was one of 
the United Empire Loyalists who settled in Montreal before 
1786. He was in partnership there as a ship-owner and 
foreign merchant with another United Empire Loyalist, Hon. 
John Richardson, President of the Lachine Canal Construc- 
tion Company. He married Margaret, daughter of Charles 
Grant, third son of Grant, Laird of Kinworth. Children : 

I. William, born P'ebruary 10, 1804; succeeded his 
uncle, P'rederic Grant, to the estates of Eccies- 
greig; married P^ueretta, daughter of Joseph 
P^orsyth, Kingston, Canada. Issue : 

a. P^'rederic Grant, born September 2, 1836; Cap- 

tain 3d Hussars, A.D.C. to His Excellency, the 
Marquis of Lome, Governor-General of Canada ; 
afterwards A.D.C. to Her Majesty Queen Vic- 
toria ; married Margaret, daughter of Col. 
WilHam A. Orr, C.B., of Bridgetown. 

b. John Joseph, born October 23, 1840; Captain 

46th F'oot ; married Annie, daughter and heir- 
ess of John Littleton, of Trewin, St. Germain, 
Cornwall, England. 

c. William, born May 26, 1843 ; Captain 82d Foot, 

married Minnie, daughter of Hon. John Beverley 



14 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Robinson, Lieut. -Governor of Ontario, and son 
of Sir John Beverley Robinson, Bart. 

d. George James, born March 7, 1847. 

e. Annie Gregory, married WilHam Owen Bridge- 

stock, Gettydyvyl, Carmarthenshire, Wales. 
/. Eueretta- Alice. 

2. John Blackzvood, born November 21, 1805; mar- 

ried Mary, daughter of Samuel Gerrard, of Mon- 
treal. Issue : 

a. John Gerrard, Major 57th Foot ; see p. 87. 

b. Frederic Arthur, born April 2, 1830; Captain 

5th P\isilcers, afterwards Lieut. -Colonel. 

c. Margaret, born March 6, 1831; married Rev. 

C. N. Williams, M.A., Rector of St. Andrews, 
Heresford, England. 

d. Eueretta Vivian, born December 8, 1831. 

3. Jane, married Capt. George Gregory, 19th Light 

Dragoons. 




Arms, Denvs dk Fronsac 





Arms of Forsvth of Tailzerton 



Arms of Forsvth of I'ailzkrton 



FORSYTH OF FAILZERTON, COUNTY AYR 

Walter Forsvth (son of John, see p. 8) was Provost of 
the College and Suhdeaneries of Glasgow, mentioned in the 
Acts of Scottish Parliament for 1678. He married Mar- 
guerite, daughter of Capt. James Forsaith, of French marine, 
by Marguerite Denys, daughter of Gov. Nicolas Denys, 
Vicomte de Fronsac in Seigneurial Order of Canada. His 
sons were James and Alexander (see p. 19). 

James Forsayth, born Ayrshire, 1678, captured during 
King William's Irish Campaign (at age of 13 years), with a 
relative who favored the cause of the Stuarts. He himself 
in 1715 was said to have been a captain in the Farl of Marr's 
uprising for the Stuai ts and obliged to leave the country with 
his family, going to Ireland. His wife was Margaret, daughter 

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l6 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

of Hugh Montgomerie, of County Ayr, Major of Royalist 
Cavalry, who had been a " Signer for the King in 1660." 
His children were: I, Matthew (below) ; H, Alexander; HI, 
Thomas, of County Cork (see p. 22). 

I. Hon. Matthew,* born County Ayr, 1699 (see p. 68) ; 
married Esther, daughter of Robert Graham. He died 1790. 
His children were : 

1. Matthew, born in Ireland, was a Loyalist and went off 
as a physician in the Royal Navy. 

2. David,! born in Ireland. Ensign in Chester Company, 
1st New Hampshire Regiment ; wounded, Ticonderoga, and 
died May 21, 1778. 

3. Jonathan, J born in Ireland. Soldier in Chester Com- 
pany, ist New Hampshire Regiment ; killed, Ticonderoga, 
July 9, 1777. 

4. Esther, died unmarried. 

5. WiLLiAivr,§ born in Ireland, 1740. Ensign in the Royal 
Provincial Regiment, ^7^1-7 \ married Jane Wilson (see p. 
71). He died in 1808. His children were: 

a. Matthew, settled in what is now Manchester, N. H. 

b. James, a physician, an alumnus of Dartmouth 

College, a son of whom. Dr. F. F. Forsyth, 
was one of the founders of the Weymouth 
(Mass.) Historical Society, and a contributor 
to the History of Weymouth. 

c. David, Captain of the Deering Rifles. 

d. Thomas, II born September i, 1775 (see p. 72). 

*" Chase's Hist, of Chester,"|pp. 524, 109, 127, 129, 130, 140, 142, 144, 152, 259, 456, 
621, 231; "Town Papers, N. H.," Vol XI, p. 309; Vol. IX., pp. 109, 115; "State 
Papers, N. H.," Vol. IX., pp. 109, 115; "Granite Monthly," Vol. VIII. The name is 
spelled on the Chester Records Forsayth, Forsaith, and Forsyth. Some descendants 
follow the first, others the last, way of spelling. He had an estate in Ireland for which 
his descendants lodged papers. 

t" Hist. Col. N. H.," Vol. VII., p. 83; " Chase's Hist, of Chester," p. 524; "State 
Papsrs, N. H ," Vol, XIV., pp. 554, 634. 

X " Chase's Hist, of Chester," pp. 377, 379. 

§ " Provincial Papers, N. H.," Vol. VI , p. 767 ; " Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. XL, pp. 
493, 497, 498; Vol. IX., p. 759; " Hist, of Hillsborough County (N. H.)." 

II " Burke's Colonial Gentry," Vol. II. " Dufaure's Notes sur las Emigres." " Amer- 
ica Heraldica, .\merican .\ncestry," \o\. VII. 



F(3RSVTH DE FRONSAC I? 

He married Sallie Pray.* His children were: 

i. Jane, Ix^rn 1810, married R. P. Illsley, of Port- 
land, whose daughter, Elizabeth, married 
Hon. Boise de Veber, M. P. and Mayor of 
St. John, N. B., in 1886, a descendant 
of Col. Gabriel de Veber of the Prince of 
Wales' American Regiment of 1776-83. 

ii. Hamilton, born 18 12. Army of Texas, 1834. 
Captain on staff of Gen. Mirabeaii B. 
Lamar. Died, Galveston, 1839. 

iii. Sarah Ann, born 18 15, married, as second 
wife, Hon. W. P. Preble, LL.D., Judge of 
the Supreme Court of Maine, F'irst Presi- 
dent of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada 
(1854), and U. S. Mini.ster to the Nether- 
lands, etc. They had one son, Edward, 
married to Caroline S., daughter of George 
Capron, Newton Centre, Mass. 

iv. Eleanor, born 18 17, married Samuel Sawyer, 
of Portland. Their son, George, died at 
New Orleans, 1853. 

V. Frederic, Vicomte de Fronsac, of Montreal 
and Portland, born 18 19, see p. 73. He 
married Harriette Marie, daughter of Maj.- 
Gen. Joseph Scott Jewett, of Scarborough 
(see p. 88). His children, Frederic Gregory, 
Vicomte de Fronsac, born, Montreal (see p. 
75), and Thomas Scott (see p. 80). 

vi. George, born 182 1, Lieutenant 78th U. S. C. 
Troops, 1863, Assistant O. M. and A. A. G. 
with rank as Major, at camps at Washing- 
ton, 1865 ; customs officer at Sitka, Alaska, 
afterwards removed to Fresno ; married 

* " Sabine's American Loyalists " ( Hamilton ). 

Note. — Sallie Pray, born 1778. Admiral Fray, born 1746. Mary Hamilton, born 
1760. Colonel Hamilton, born about 17^3. 



I8 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Albeitina, daughter of Capt. Albert Jewett, 
of Portland ; their daughter Albertina mar- 
ried Dr. Macall ester, of Honolulu, 
vii. Caroline Augusta, born 1823 ; married James 
Albert Macnabb, of Greenock, Scotland, a 
cousin of Sir A. N. Macnabb, of Canada. 
e. Robert, whose sons were Samuel C. and Rodney. 

f. Josiah, barrister at (loffstown, an alumnus of 

Dartmouth College, whose son, Hon. William 
L., is justice of the Boston Municipal Court 
(1896). 

g. Hannah, married a Mr. Paige. 

6. Robert,* born Chester, 1746; Lieutenant in the War 
of 1776-83 ; married Mary, daughter of~ Deacon William 
Tolford, of Walnut Hill. One of his sons was Robert, who 
married Sarah Luvkin. His son Robert married Sabrina 
Ramesay, and their son, James, was one of the prominent 
men in New York State. He was president of the Rens- 
salaer Polytechnic Institute ; president of the Renssalaer & 
Saratoga Railway ; president of the Troy Bridge Company ; 
Judge of the County Court ; Judge Advocate of Division ; 
author on the Law of Contracts, etc. He married, ist, a 
daughter of Hon. Elisha Tibbetts, of New York City; 2d, 
a Miss Pumpelley, of the family of the explorer. His chil- 
dren were: i, Robert, civil engineer and manager of the 
Union Steel Company, of Chicago, and 2, James, Attorney- 
at-Law, born i860, living at Riverside, the home of the 
Pumpelleys, in Owego, N. Y. 

7. JosiAii,f born Chester; Lieutenant in War of 1776-83; 
married Kitt)', daughter of Caleb Richardson. 



*" Chase's Hist. Chester," pp. ii8, 344, 446; " Provincial Papers, N. H.," Vol. VII, 
p. 755 ; " Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. XIII., pp. 196, 198, 751 ; Vol. XI., pp. 320, 685. 

t" Chase's Hist. Chester," pp. 231, 373, 383, 457, 630; "Town Papers, N. H.," Vol. 
XI., p. 315; " State Papers, N. H.," Vol. XI., p. 315. 




Arms, Denvs dk I^'konsac 





Arms ok Forsyth of Tailzerton 



Arms of Forsyth of Failzerton 



FORSYTH OF BOSTON 



Capt. Alexander Forsyth, son of Walter, Provost of 
Glasgow College and Subdeaneries, by wife, his cousin, Mar- 
garet, daughter of Capt. James, and Marguerite (Denys de 
Fronsac) Forsaith (see p. 1 5), was born, Failzerton Manour, 
Ayrshire, 1689 (see p. jj), prominent in Boston Chronicles ; 
married, ist, Miss Elizabeth Evans, of Boston, December 12, 
1 7 17; 2d, Miss Deborah Briggs, also of Boston, about 1730. 
Returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, with his wife Deborah, and 
son John, in 1763. His children, born in Boston, were: 
\. Alexander, born October 20, 1721. 
II. Robert, born August 18, 1723. 

19 



20 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

III. JoJin, bom June 8, 1726; died September 8, 1727. 

IV. John, born November 5, 173 i (see below). 

John Forsyth, son of Capt. Alexander, as above, filled 
several offices in Boston, in the public trust, before returning 
to Ayrshire, Scotland, with his father and mother in 1763, 
among them being that of surveyor of lumber and clerk of 
the city market. After he returned to Scotland, he entered 
the royal arm)- stationed in Britain and attained the rank of 
captain. His son born in Ayrshire was : 

John Forsyth, born 1770; died 18 15. He was, like many 
of his family, inclined to the military profession and, like his 
father, attained the rank of captain in the British Army. 
His children, born in Ayrshire, were: 
I. JoJin, born 1805 ; died 1892. 
n. Williavi (see below). 

HI. James, born 18 10; died 1858, in Ayr, Scotland. 

William Forsyth, son of Capt. John, as above, born, 
Ayrshire, November 8, 1807 ; died, Roxbury, Boston, Decem- 
ber 12, 1876. He came to Boston with his brother John in 
1828, but John returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1835. 
William settled in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, where most 
of his children were born, but later he resided in Roxbury, 
now a part of Boston, where he died. For about a quarter of 
a century he was connected with the Boston Belting Company, 
the original manufacturers of vulcanized rubber-goods in the 
United States. He married Jane, daughter of Hamilton 
Bennett, Esquire, of near Buxton, England, who was born 
November 15, 181 5; died, Roxbury, Boston, September 8, 
i860. He was a man of the highest character for integrity, 
a characteristic which all his children inherited. His children 
were : 

I. William, born November g, 1839; died July i, 
1877. 

II. JoJin Hamilton, born March 9, 1842, superintendent, 
Boston Belting Company. 




WILLIAM FORSYTH 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 



21 



III. Atinc Jaiic, born November i8, 1843 ! ^^^^ Septem- 
ber 7, 1848. 

IV. Margaret Bctinctt, born August 24, 1845 \ died 
April 8, 1890. 

V. JMary Elizabeth, born December ri, 1847; died 
September 5, 1848. 

VI. James Bennett, born February 2, 1850 (see p. y'S), 
general manager, Boston Inciting Company. 

VII. Thomas Alexander, born April 12, 1852, manu- 
facturing agent, Boston Belting Company. 

VIII. George Henry, born November 27, 1854, assistant 
manager, Boston Belting Company. 




\> AOBlLITAj 
Arms of Hamilton 
Dukes of Hamilton and Abercorn 

(See pp. 20, 72 and So) 







yVOULOl 

Arms of Bennett 

Earls of Tankarville 

(See pp. 20 and 79) 




K.OYAL ^A LA>[0RTE2I 



FORSAYETH OF WHITECHURCH HOUSE 

CAPPAGH, COUNTY WATERFORD, IRELAND 

Thomas,* died in Cork, Ireland, in 1768, son of Capt. 
James (see p. 15). Mary, his widow, survived him, leaving a 
private estate. Issue : 

I . Robert, merchant in Cork ; married Catherine, 
daughter of Thomas Campion, Esq., and had : 
a. Thomas, married Mary Ann, relative of St. John 
Grant, of Kilmurray, Fermoy. Issue: 
i. Robert, h<.^\\\ 1807; curate in Bristol; married 

Fanny ; died 1840, leaving a daughter, 

Frances Jane, author of poems " Armos 
Waters." 
ii. Thomas Gifford, born 1808 ; H.M. Attache 
to the Embassy at Morocco ; musician and 
poet; married ist. Rose D'Aguilar ; 2d, 

*Arms of Failzerton confirmed to this family: Crest; a griffin's head between two 
wings displayed, vert. Motto : " Loyal mt Mart." 



FORSYTH DE P^RONSAC 23 

Lucy H., daughter of Colonel O'Toole, of 

Wicklow. 
iii. Catherine. 
\\. Mary. 
V. JoJin Bralnrrjoii, artist, settled at Bunbury, 

Western Australia, in 1845. 
vi. Eliza. 

2. John, born 1735 ; Pensioner at Trinity College, 

Dublin, 1749; Fellow 1762, with degree of D.D.; 
Archdeacon of Cork, 1781 ; fine classical scholar ; 
died unmarried, 1 78 1 . 

3. Margaret, died unmarried. 

4. Samuel, entered H.M. Customs Service at Cork, 

1752 ; appointed by the Viceroy, Inspector Gen- 
eral of Customs for Ireland, Dublin, July 24, 

1776; married Margaret ; died 1801 ; 

buried at St. Ann's, Dublin. Issue : 

a. John, A.B., appointed Vicar of Leighmoney, 

March 30, 1826; priest at Cloyne, Sept. 29, 
1786; in 1803 was "Threshers Lecturer " in 
Cork; died Sept. 16, 1820; buried at St. 
Nicholas, Cork. He married Anne Courtenay, 
and had : 
i. Thomas, educated at Trinity College, where he 
distinguished himself by classical attain- 
ments ; barrister at law ; Queen's counsel ; 
Recorder of Cork; died 1879. 
ii. Samuel. 
iii. Robert. 
iv. Charlotte. 
V. William. 
vi. John, Curate of Upper Shandon, Cork. 

b. Robert, A.B., scholar at Trinity College, 1780; 

priest at Cloyne, 1784; rector of Kilfithmone, 
County Tipperary, 1 798 ; married Jane, 



24 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

daughter of Hugh Evans, Esq., of Cashel. 
He was author of the "History of our Lord 
and Saviour." Issue : 
i. Samuel, settled in HaHfax, N. S. Captain in 

the British Army there, 
ii. Robert. 

iii. RieJiard Martin* studied medicine in Dublin 
and Edinburgh; degree of M.D., Edinburgh, 
1827; degree of Surgery, Glasgow, 1828; 
at Hotel Uieu and other hospitals, Paris ; 
settled at Templemore, Ireland ; married 
Kate Craven, daughter of \Vm. Chadwick, 
Esq., of Ballinard, Tipperary ; his children 
were : 

Richard William, who entered H.M. Mili- 
tary Service in 1863, served in India; 
retired in 1884, as brigade surgeon 
and lieutenant-colonel ; married Mar- 
garet, daughter of Rev. J. Baird, had 
issue : Amy, Kate, Gordon William, 
Noel Francis, settled at Whitechurch 
House, Cappagh, County Waterford, 
Ireland. 
Kate Frances. 

John C. C, entered medical profession ; 
died of fever in forest of West 
Africa while employed in an expe- 
dition. 
Jane E., married Dr. Robert T. Huston, 
no issue. 
iv. JoJin, commanded the "Indian Queen " in the 
Merchant Marine, and made the shortest 

*Named for his uncle Col. Richard Martin, M. P., of Ballinahinch, County Galway 
Ireland, and of the same family as Martin of Tullyra Castle, Galway, so celebrated in the 
annals of Ireland. He was the pioneer of the legislation against cruelty to animals in 
the Parliament of Great Britain. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 25 

voyage then known between Liverpool and 
Barbadoes. 

c. Charlotte, married Richard Martin, Esq. 

d. Elizabeth, married the Rev. Charles Smith. 

e. A daughter, unmarried. 




FORSYTH OF CROMARTY AND ELGIN 



James Forsyth, 3d son of William of Dykes (see p. 8) 
left quite a posterity, who are considerably scattered. One 
of his sons was : 

William Forsyth, of Barmuckety, who married Jean 
Thomson. Their children were : 

I. James, married at Cromarty, Sept. 20, 1720, Katherine 
Morison; died 1739, leaving: 

I. William* merchant and magistrate at Cromarty, 
born 1721 ; married, ist, Mary Russell; 2d, 
Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Patrick Grant, of 
Duthel, Strathspey, incumbent of Nigg, Rosshire. 
Issue : 

a. William. 

b. Patrick. 

c. James. 

d. William. 



* Life of William Forsyth, by Hugh Miller. 

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FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 27 

e. Isabella. 

f. Margaret. All died in infancy. 

g. John, born Cromarty, 1779; in civil service of 

Bengal; married at Calcutta, 18 16, Mary Ann 
Farmer ; his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, born 
Calcutta, 18 1 7, married Henry H. Harwood, 
J. P. and D.L. for County Middlesex, whose 
children are Henry W. Forsyth Harwood, Bar- 
rister of the Inner Temple, editor of the Gene- 
alogist (1903), another son, and a daughter. 

h. Catharine, married Isaac Forsyth, of Elgin. 

/. Isabella, married Ale.x. Mackenzie, Captain in 
Royal Marines, and grandson of Sir Roderic 
Mackenzie, 2d Bart, of Scat well. 

2. Aim, born 1725. 

3. JoJin, settled at Dingwall. 

4. ArtJiur, merchant. 
II. Elspet, born 1704. 

HI. Alexander, born 1707; merchant and magistrate at 
Elgin; married, ist, Margaret Ross; 2d, Ann, daughter of 
William Harrold, by wife, a Miss Gordon, daughter of Gor- 
don, laird of Cairnfield, Banffshire. Mr. Harrold was a fol- 
lower of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and was robbed of 
everything by the brutal followers of the brutal Duke of 
Cumberland. Mr. Forsyth was one of the most prominent 
citizens of Elgin. He had 21 children, of whom a few 
were : 

T. John, married Sophie, daughter of Rev. Patrick 
Grant, of Nigg, Rosshire, and his daughter Ann 
married Adam Longmore, of the Court of Ex- 
chequer, Edinburgh. 
2. Elizabeth, married Thomas Stephen, Provost of 

Elgin. 
I. JosepJi, born Elgin; author of the "Antiquities, 
Arts and Letters of Italy," etc. 



28 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC * 

4. Isaac, author of " Memoire of Joseph Forsyth"; 
married Catherine, daughter of WilHam Forsyth, 
of Cromarty, and had : 

a. Elizabeth. 

b. Isabella. 

c. Catherine. 

d. Ann, married William Duncan Macandrew, of 

Liverpool and Elgin, whose sons are Major- 
General Isaac Forsyth Macandrew, of the 
Bengal Staff Corps, and William Macandrew, 
Esquire. 
c. Justina, married Arthur Duff, Sheriff-clerk of 
Morayshire. 




FORSYTH OF CHESTER COUNTY, PA. 



Alexander Forsyth, supposed to be son of Alexan- 
der, of Elgin, merchant and magistrate (see p. 27), married 
Margaret, daughter of William Temple, of County Aberdeen, 
a partisan of the House of Stuart, to which family he was 
related, as well as to the Barclays and Lord Gordon, of Hunt- 
ley. Their children were: i, Alexander; 2, William [born at 
Kirkpatrick, married Jane Livingston in 1788, and had a, 
John, born 1789 ; b, Nancy, born 1792 ; c, Mary, born 1794 ; 
d, Jane, born 1 796 ; e, Peter, born 1 799 ; /, Nellie, born 
1801 ; g, Alexander, born 1803]; 3, James (went to Lon- 
don); 4, Peter; 5, Jonathan; 6, Hugh; 7, Andrew (see 
below); 8, Thomas; 9, Bartholomew; 10, Nathaniel; 11, 
Isabella. 

Andrew F"c)Rsvth, son of Alexander, at the age of 20, 
went to London with his brother James, who presented 
him to their relative, Lord George Gordon. He accompanied 
Lord Gordon to Philadelphia, being employed by that nobleman 

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30 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

for seven years. Afterwards he entered into mercantile 
partnership, finally doing business for himself. He married 
I St a widow, Cooper, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
Hopewell, and had one son, James, who died at Natchez, 
Miss., at the age of 40, unmarried. At her death he 
married for 2d wife, Agnes, daughter of Col. James Longh- 
ead, by wife, Catherine Finney (daughter of Robert Finney 
and Catherine Fleming, of Holland). James Longhead was 
son of James Longhead and Miss Glenn, daughter of Captain 
Glenn of the English Navy, who was present at the siege of 
Derry. Mrs. Longhead, daughter of Captain Glenn, lived to 
the age of 1 18 years, residing when .she died with her daughter, 
Mrs. McDowell, in Chester County, Pa. Their son, James 
Longhead, entered business at Philadelphia as burgomaster. 
He entered the war of the American Revolution, first as a 
dispatch bearer for General Washington, then as a colonel of 
infantry. When the British troops occupied Philadelphia in 
that war. Colonel Longhead's wife, with those of others who 
were fighting against His Majesty's troops, were sent out of 
the city, and unfortunately compelled to bear those hardships 
from which even the innocent are obliged to suffer in war- 
time — and above all in a civil war, like the American Revo- 
lution. Agnes, the daughter of Colonel Longhead, who 
married Andrew F"orsyth, could with difficulty obtain the con- 
sent of her parents to her marriage with one not an active 
revolutionist, at which time her father had returned to Phila- 
delphia and was elected Mayor, and Lord Cornwallis had sur- 
rendered at Yorktown to the French General de Rochambeau 
and the P'rench fleet sent to aid General Washington and 
Congress. One of the principal officers entertained by 
Andrew P'orsyth after his marriage was the Marquis de 
LaFayette. About 1785, Andrew moved to Lebanon and 
went into partnership with a brother Scot. Andrew died at 
the age of 73 in Danville, Pa., leaving the following: 
I . James. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 3 1 



2 . Catherine. 

3. John. 

4. Elisabeth. 

5. William Temple. 

6. He I I en. 




FORSYTH OF NEWBURGH, N. Y. 



Three brothers, Alexander, John, and a third (from the 
Aberdeen Forsyths), sons Hkely of Alexander (see p. 27), are 
given below : 

I. Alexander, born July 5, 1787. Came to Martha's 
Vineyard, 1808. He settled in Maine, and married at Farm- 
ington, Deborah, daughter of Ephraim Norton, grand-uncle of 
Lillian NoTiiica, the prima donna. His children were : 

I.James Brandcr, born, Farmington. Mayor of 
Chelsea, Mass., two terms. He was a physician 
of high standing. He married Octavia Augusta, 
daughter of Joseph Bacon, president of the Brantle 
Rank of Boston. His children were : 

a. Sarah E., married Allen E. Engles, M.D., surgeon 

U. S. N. 

b. Annie, d. s. p. 

c. Margaret Hopkins, married Arthur Pratt, Boston. 

d. Isabella, d. s. p. 

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FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 33 

2. Ephraivi, horn, h'armington. Merchant in Gardiner, 

Me. ; married Emily Williamson, relative of Wil- 
liamson, the historian. Children : 

a. Martha, married Charles Duren, Chelsea. 

b. Alexander, born 1875, Gardiner. 

3. ElizabetJi, born, Farmington, September 3, 1813 ; 

married Henry Stone. Children : 
a. Lucy Augusta. 

4. George, born, Farmington, July 9, 18 15. Mer- 

chant ; married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel 
Richardson, of Princetown, Mass. Children : 

a. Harriette A., married John Quincy Adams, of 

Derry, N. H., now of Chelsea, whose son, 
William R., married Addie, daughter of Edwin 
Smyth, of East Boston, and has a daughter, 
Hester Forsyth Adams, born 1893. 

b. Isabella Instance, d. s. p. 

c. Walter, born, Chelsea, married Angle E., daughter 

of Capt. E. B. Winchester, Boston. Children : 
i. Annabella, d. s. p. 
ii. Ernest W., d. s. p. 

d. James Brander, born, Chelsea, 1855, o^ the firm 

of Stone & Forsyth, Devonshire Street, Boston ; 
married Ruth, daughter of Capt. Clifton 
Blanchard, U. S. V. 

5. Alexander, born, Farmington, 18 19. Gentleman 

farmer. 

6. William, born, Farmington, 1822, d. s. p. 

II. John, born, Aberdeen, 1791. He came to Newburgh, 
N. Y., where he married Janet Currie. Children : 

I.John, Doctor of Divinity and LL.D., educated at 

Edinburgh. Professor at Princeton College, N. Y., 

and Chaplain at U. S. Military Academy, West 

Point; died 1887, without issue. 

2. Robert Alexander, born, Newburgh, N. Y., 18 14; 



34 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

married Charlotte Pierson, daughter of Samuel 
Williams, of Newburgh ; died 1873. Children: 

a. Mary W., married E. A. Wikes, of Poughkeepsie, 

and had Mary Forsyth and Forsyth Wikes. 

b. George Wallace, born 1854; married Emily 

Vermilye, daughter of John E. Burrill, of New 
York city. 

3. Isabella, born, Newburgh, married Mr. Little. 

4. James Christie, born, Newburgh, married at Kings- 

ton, N. Y., Mary Catherine, daughter of Severyn 
Bruyn, son of Lieut. -Col. Jacobus Severyn Bruyn. 
in. The Third Son went to South America, and one of 
his descendants was the late Faulkner Forsyth. 




FORSYTH OF GEORGIA 



Robert Forsyth was born in Scotland, about 1754. He 
came to Fredericksburgh, Va., before the American Rev- 
olution of 1776-83. He became interested, like so many in 
the Southern Colonies, in the republican philanstery, and 
entered the army of Congress. He became captain in l.ee's 
Light Horse, 1776; Major, 1777; Deputy Quartermaster- 
General of the Southern Army, 1778 ; and A. D. C. to General 
Washington ; member of the Virginia Order of Cincinnatus, 
1783; appointed U. S. Marshal of Georgia, 1786; killed in 
performance of duty, 1794; buried with funeral honors by 
the Order of Cincinnatus ; a monument was erected to his 
memory at Augusta, Ga. ; Congress voted a sum of money 
for the education of his children ; he married Mrs. Fanny 
(Johnston) Houston, a widow, sister to Judge Peter Johnston, 
of Fredericksburg, and aunt of Lieut. -Gen. Joseph E. 
Johnston, C. S. A. Issue : 
a. Robert, died, aged 19. 

35 



36 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

/;. John,* born in Fredericksburg, October lo, 1780; 
member of Society of the Cincinnati ; ist Attorney- 
General of Georgia, 1808 ; Representative of U. S. 
Congress, 1813-1818; Minister Plenipotentiary to 
Spain, 1819-1822; Representative of U. S. Con- 
gress, 1 8 23-1 8 27 ; Governor of Georgia, 1828-1830 ; 
U. S. Senator, 1830-1834; Secretary of State for 
United States, 18 34-1 841 ; died in Washington, 
October 22, 184 1 ; introduced the culture of nan- 
keen cotton into America ; Georgia erected a mon- 
ument to his memory in the Congressional Burying 
Ground at Washington ; married Clara, daughter of 
Hon. Josiah Meigs, LL.D., first president of the 
University of Georgia, and son of Col. Jonathan 
Meigs of the war of 1776. Issue : 

1. Julia, born 1803 ; married Hon. Alfred Iverson, 

Judge of Supreme Court of Georgia, U. S. 
Senator, and general in Confederate Army. 

2. Mary,\ born 1807; married Arthur Shaaff, 

Georgetown, D. C. 

3. Clara, born 18 10; married Capt. Murray Mason, 

U. S. N., afterwards commodore in Confederate 
Navy, son of Gen. John Mason, of Virginia, 
whose brother was U. S. Senator James M. 
Mason, and whose sister was Mrs. Sidney 
Smith Lee,J mother of Gen. Fitz-Hugh Lee 
(nephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Commander-in- 
Chief of the Southern Confederacy); a daughter 
of Clara Forsyth Mason married Capt. S. B. 
Davis, C. S. A., living in Alexandria, Va. 



*" Virginia Hist. Coll."; " Whyte's Hist, of Ga. "; " Van Hoist's Hist, of U. S."; 
" Bench and Bar of Ga.," Vol. H., etc. The family estate in Georgia was about 50,000 
acres, with about 10,000 additional in Louisiana. 

t A daughter of Mary (Forsyth) Shaaff married Richard Tighlman Brice, grandson 
of Gen. Tench Tighlman, of Maryland. 

\ " Lee Family History." 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 37 

4. John* born in Augusta, Ga., 1812; member of 

Society of the Cincinnati (S. C.) ; Adjutant 1st 
Georgia Regiment in Mexican War; U. S. 
Minister to Mexico, 1856; Mayor of Mobile, 
i860; Confederate Commissioner Plenipoten- 
tiary, 1861 ; the Chief of Staff of the Con- 
federate Army of Tennessee, 1863 ; and author 
of the " Proclamation of the South to the Peo- 
ple of Kentucky " ; since the war editor of 
Mobile Register until his death in 1878; he 
married Margaret, daughter of Latham Hull, 
of Augusta, Ga., and had : 
T. Charles, born. Mobile, Colonel 3d Alabama 
Regiment, C. S. A. ; distinguished at battles 
of Bull Run, Shiloh, Seven Pines, and about 
Petersburg; married Laura, daughter of 
Lorenzo M. Sprague, and had as children : 

1. Charles Sprague, born, Mobile, 1861. 
[Member of the S. C. Society of the Cin- 
cinnati, Superintendent Becker Leather 
Company of Milwaukee ; married Margaret, 
daughter of Rev. C. F. Knight, 4th Bishop 
of Milwaukee, their children being Elizabeth 
Pickering, born 1891, and John, born 1892.] 

2. Elizabeth Hunter, married Irwin M. 
Meyer, died 1895 ; and 3, Margaret Angela, 
died 1883. 

5. Virginia, married George Hargraves, had Clara 

F. ; married Capt. Chas. Wood, C. S. A., of 
Ivy, Albemarle County, Va. 

6. Aima E., born 1823. 



* " Stevens' ^Yar between the States," Vol. II. ; " Davis's Rise and Fall of the 
Southern Confederacy," Vol. II.; "Southern Historical Papers; Correspondence be- 
tween the U. S. and C. S. Governments." John Forsyth, Jr., enjoyed the soubriquet 
of " Prince of Southern Journalists." 



38 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

7. Rosa M., bom 1823 ; married Wm. Aubrey, of 

Baltimore, afterward of Cartersville, Ga., Com- 
missary, C. S. A. 

8. Robert,* born in Augusta, Ga., 1826; Captain 

I St U. S. Voltigeurs, Mexican War; Colonel 
of Artillery, C. S. A. ; Commandant of Con- 
federate Fortifications in Mobile Bay ; married 
Julia, daughter of Latham Hull, of Augusta, 
Ga., and had : 

1. John. 

2. Angela. 

3. Margaret. 

* See " Correspondence between the U. S. and C. S. Governments." 




FORSYTH OF ALBANY, CONNECTICUT AND 
NOVA SCOTIA 



Arthur FoRsvni, from Scotland, son of William, of Bar- 
muckety (see p. 26), settled first near Boston in the first part of 
the 1 8th century. His children were John and Timothy, with 
perhaps Gilbert and Jason, who went from Connecticut and 
settled in King's County, Nova Scotia, before 1760. 

I. John, son of Arthur, married a Miss Smith, of Lyme, 
who claimed descent from the Princess Pocahontas. 



Conn 
Issue 



1. Rttsst/l (hereafter). 

2. Dana. 

3. George, U. E. Loyalist, list 11, District O, Depart- 

ment Ontario, from Schenectady, N. Y. 

4. A daughter, married Mr. Rathbone, of Albany, the 

father of General Rathbone. 
I. Russell (as above), physician in Albany; married 
Sarah Seymour, of the family of Gov. Horatio 
Seymour. Issue : 

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40 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

a. Douglas. 

/;. William Wallace, married Cornelia Kane 
Strong, niece of Dr. Kane, the explorer, 
and descendant of Governor Winthrop. 
Issue : 

i. Emily Howe, married Herman Bruen, of 
New York, and had Emily Howe and 
Herman, 
ii Sarah Seymour, married Matthias Ellis, of 
South Carver, Mass., their daughters 
Zaidee (who married Thos. T. Gaff, of 
Cincinnati) and Helena, 
iii. Russell, married Helena Annette, daughter 
of Benj. Davies K. Craig, of New York 
City, and had Beatrice. 
H. Timothy, son of Arthur, married , and had: 

1. George (hereafter). 

2. David. 

3. Sanford. 

4. Fredej'ic. 

George (as above), married Lucy, daughter of Abner 
Howe. He died 1821. Issue: 

1. Orlando. 

2. Amanda M., born 1806; married Darwin Hill, of 

Clarkson, N. Y., and had : 

a. Cornelia Frances, born 1832 ; married Thos. 

Southworth, Holly, N. Y. 

b. Helen Louise, born 1834 ; married E. Brad- 

ford Greenleaf, Milwaukee. 

c. Mary Seymour, born 1836; married W. H. 

Rogers, Mount Vernon, O. 

d. Harriet Evelyn. 

e. Emma Amanda. 

3. R?{ssell. 

4. Lucy, born 18 12; married Hon. J. D. Perkins. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 41 

5. George Hamilton, bom 18 13; married Julia Har- 

man. He died 1857. Issue: 

a. Lucy. 

b. Amanda. 

c. William. 

6. Anne, bom 18 15; married W. M. Gorham, M.D., 

Nevvburgh, N. Y. 

7. Jane. 




Arms of Denys de la Thibaudiere, de Fronsac, de Bonnaventure, 

DE VlTRE, DE St. SimON, DE LA RONDE 



DENSY, SIEUR DE LA THIBAUDIERE 

Jehan Denvs, born in Honfleur, France, in the early half 
of the 15th century, was one of the boldest, most experienced 
and renowned of the navigators of France. He commanded 
an expedition to the coast of Brazil in 1504. In Dionne's 
History of New France, he is described as the " First of the 
Norman French to become acquainted with the shores of 
Newfoundland in an authentic manner." In 1506, he pub- 
lished, at Honfleur, his chart of the eastern coast of Canada, 
Cape Breton and the Gulf of St. Lawrence. His name is 
inscribed in the " Registre de la Charite et Confrerie de Notre 
Dame de Honfleur," an order founded in 1457. ^^ ^^^ same 
register are the names of his son Jehan and of his grandson 
and great-grandson Jehan. This latter married Marguerite, 
eldest child of David de Forsyth, lord of Dykes, in Scotland, 
and Commissioner of Glasgow in 1594 and Vicomte de Fron- 
sac in France. One of the sons of Jehan Denys, the explorer, 
was : 

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FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 43 

Pierre Denys, who became established in Tours and was 
Intendant of Finance for Tours. His sons were : Pierre 
Denys de la Barodiere, a magistrate of Tours and enrolled in 
the nobility, and Mathurin (below). 

Mathurix Dexys, Sicnr de la TJiibandicrc, was captain in 
the Royal Guard of King Henry HI. It is related, that, on 
the 7th of May, 1589, the King, being besieged in Tours by 
the rebels and leaguers under the Due de Mayenne, was so 
closely pressed that he was obliged to rely for safety on the ef- 
forts of Denys, who was killed at his side by the thrust of a 
pike. Denys was buried at Saint Symphorien, a suburb of 
Tours, with royal honors. He married Mile. Aubert, presum- 
ably of the family of Aubert, the explorer. His son was : 

Jacques Denys, Sieiir dc la T/iibauditre, who was an officer 
of distinction in the army of King Henry HI, having suc- 
ceeded his father as Captain of the Royal Guard. He mar- 
ried Marie, daughter of Hughes Cosnier de Beseau and sister 
of Emelien Cosnier, one of the "Hundred Gentlemen of the 
King." His sons were : 

I, Nicolas ; 2, Simon, ancestor of the Denys de Bonna ven- 
ture and de la Ronde families (to follow) ; 3, Jacques, captain 
in the army, afterwards quartermaster-general of the armies 
of the King, killed at Candie, in the naval battle of the Vene- 
tians ; 4, Henri, killed in Italy in the regiment of the Royal 
Guards. 

Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, son of Jacques (as 
above), was born at Tours in 1598. He and his brother 
Simon were provided for in the inheritance of Capt. Jehan 
Denys and his wife, Marguerite (Forsyth) Denys, of Honfleur, 
which included their ancestral claims in Canada, or New 
France, into which country these two brothers went (see de 
Fronsac succession, p. 65). He married Marguerite de la 
Faye. His children were : 

I. Richard, for whose family, see de Fronsac succes- 
sion, p. 68. His daughter Anne de Fronsac 



44 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

married Jean Mercian, non-commissioned officer in 
Quebec Garrison in 1709, whose children were: 
a. Agathe, born 171 2; b. Jean B., who married 
and had an only child also named Jean B. Merman, 
born 1749, married, at Repentigny, 1768, Marie, 
daughter of J. B. Baudoin, and had an only child, 
Marie Joseph, who married 1792, at Repentigny, 
Augustin Duval (descendant of Francois Duval, 
Seigneur Duponthant, in Brittany, who came to 
Quebec before 1657 and whose wife was Marie 
Giguelle of Ponsol, Brittany). His children were : 
I, Augustin Duval, born 1792, and 2, Marie 
Angelique Duval, born 1795. 
II. Marguerite, married, at Honfleur in France, her 
cousin, James Forsaith of Failzerton, a captain 
under the King; of France. 



DENYS, SEIGNEUR DE BONNAVENTURE 

Simon Denys, Seigneur de la Triuite, brother of Nicolas, 
Vicomte de Fronsac, was born at Tours in 1599. He came 
to Canada as Captain in the Regiment Carignan-Salieres, 
where he was distinguished in the Indian Wars. He was 
made Receiver General for the Company of New France at 
Quebec. He married, ist, Jeanne Dubreuil, daughter of the 
Procureur du Roi du Breuil of Tours ; 2d, Fran^oise du Tar- 
tre. His children were : 

I. Pierre, born, France, 1630, Sieur de la Ronde, under 

which head see. 
II. Charles, born, France, 1638, Sieur de litre, under 
which head see. 
III. Frangoise, born 1644, married Michel LeNeuf, 
Seizneur du Herisson. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 45 

IV. Catherine, born 1646. 
V. Paul, born 1649, Sicur dc St. Simon, under which 

head see. 
VI. Marguerite, born 165 i, married Michael Cresse. 
VII. Barbe, born 1652, married Antoine Pecody-de 

Centrecoeur. 
VIII. Simon Pierre, born 1654. 
IX. Marie, born 1656. 
X. Claude, born 1657. Deacon. 
XI. Gabrielle, born 1658. 

XII. Charlotte, born 1663; married Pierre Dupas ; 
secondly, Pierre Boucher. 

XIII. Jacques, born 1664. 

XIV. Marie F'rangoise, born 1666; married John Outlan ; 

secondly, Noel Chartrain. 
XV. Jean Baptiste, born 1669. 
Pierre Denys, Sicur dc la Rondc, eldest son. [His spon- 
sors were Sieur da Breuil and Nicole du Ruisseau, wife of 
Hurban Chomalus, Procureur du Roi de la Prevote de Tours] 
as above. He was grand master of forests and waters of 
New P" ranee ; married 1655, at Quebec, Catherine, daughter 
of Jacques Le Neuf, Sieur de La Poterie, member of the 
Superior Council, by wife Margaret Le Gardeur. He was 
brother of Matheu-Michel Le Neuf, Sieur de Herisson, Lieut.- 
Gen. for the king. Pierre died 1708. Children : 

I. Marguerite Renec, born. Three Rivers, 1656; mar- 
ried 1672, Thomas de La Nouguere ; sec- 
ondly, Jacques Alex de Pleury, died 1722. 
II. Jacques, born 1657. 
III. Simon Pierre, born 1659, Seigneur de Jioiuuvvoi- 
ture ; Chevalier and King's Lieutenant in 
Acadia in 1689; captain of frigate. Royal 
French Navy, 169 1 ; announced relief at 
Quebec, captured several English prizes, even 
at the gates of Boston, and took them into 



46 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Port Royal. He failed to capture Pemkrut, 
but his arrival and conquests on the coast of 
Acadia in 1695 * raised the spirits of the pro- 
vincials. He defeated the Boston man-of-war 
" Sorlings " off St. John. In 1707 he was 
one of the most energetic naval commanders 
against the English. He married Genevieve, 
daughter of Louis Couillard, Sieur de I'Es- 
pinay ; secondly, Jeanne Janiere, of Hom- 
bourg. Children : 

a. Charles, born 1687, died 1688. 

b. Claude, Seigneur de Bonnaventiire, Chevalier of 

the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis, 
Admiral of France; married, 1748, Louise, 
daughter of Louis Denys, Sieiir de la Ronde, 
by wife Louise, daughter of Rene Louis Char- 
tier de Lotbiniere, Councillor for the King, 
Lieut .-Gen. Civil and Criminal. Claude was 
also Major of the Battalion of Isle Royal. He 
returned to France with the French Naval and 
Military forces in 1760 and died from wounds 
received at Louisbourg. He had a son, Claude 
Charles (see p. 50), and daughter, Marie 
Louise, born, Louisbourg, 1758. 
IV. Marie Angeliqne, born 1661 ; married Charles 

Aubert. 
V. Claude, born 1663. 
VI. Franqoisc Jeantie, born 1664; married Guillaume 
Bonthier ; secondly, Nicolas D'Ailleboust, 
Seigneur de Menteth. 
VII. Catherine, born 1666. 

VIII. Marie Charlotte, born 1668; married Claude de 
Ramezay, Governor of Montreal, who built 
the Chateau de Ramezay there, 1705. 

* Charlevoix, " Hist.de Nouvelle France." 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 



47 



IX. Joseph, Priest-Recollect. 
X. Nicolas, born 1669. 
XI. Picnr, born 1671. 
XII. Marie Louise, horn 1671; married Pierre D'Aille- 
boust, Seigneur d'Argenteuil. 




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CHATEAU DE RAMEZAY 



XIII. Louis, born 1675 ; Sieur dc la Romie ; married 

Louise Chartier de Lotbiniere (as below). 

XIV. Anne Ursule, born 1677 ; married P'ran^oise 

Aubert. 
IvOUis Denys de la Ronde, son as above, of Pierre, a 
captain of a detachment of Marines. First Captain Comman- 
dant of troops sent by the King to Acadia. Chevalier of the 
Order of St. Louis, etc., married Louise, daughter of Rene 
Louis Chartier Lotbiniere, Lieut. -Gen., etc., and son of Louis 



48 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Therandre Chart ier de Lotbiniere, Lieut .-Gen. of the Prevote 
of Quebec. He drove the EngHsh from Acadia. Royal 
Envoy sent to New England, 171 1, by the Governor, Count 
de Costabelle. Most likely he is the Sieur de La Ronde 
mentioned by Garneau as introducing the manufacture of salt 
into Canada. Three of his children were : 

L Francis Paul Denys,hoxxv 1722; Sieur de la TJiibeau- 
dicre, ofificer ; married Marguerite, daughter of 
Alex. Celles-Duclos, son of Gabriel, Sieur du 
Sailly, Civil and Criminal Judge at Montreal in 
1652. Children : 

a. Louis, born ; b. Paul, Royalist, killed in 

War 1777; c. Marie A., born at Detroit, 1757; 
d. P21izabeth, born 1760. 
II. Pierre Denjs, born, Quebec, November 11, 1726, 

Seigneur de la Ronde, etc. (see page 51). 
III. Philippe Denys, Sieur de la Ronde ; captain of a de- 
tachment of marines; married, Quebec, 1753, 
Louise Marguerite, daughter of Jean Baptiste 
Gaillard, son of Guillaume, Seigneur de ITsle et 
Comte de St. Laurent, Royal Councillor, etc. 
Children : 
a. Philippe Ambroise, born 1753. 
/;. Roch, born and died 1755. 



DENYS DE VITRE 

Charles Denys, Sieur de litre and Sieur de la Prinite, 
second son of Simon, Sieur de la Prinite, councillor for the 
king; married, 1668, Quebec, Catherine, daughter of Charles 
de Lostelnau, of St. Nicolas des Champs, Paris, died 1703. 
Children : 

I. Catherine Philippe, born 1672. 
II. Marie Gabrielle, married, 1687, Pierre Descayrac. 





ELIZABETH AND JEAN DE BONNAVENTURE 
(See p. 51) 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 49 

III. Charles, Stair dc Vitt'e, councillor of the king; 
married, at Lorette, 1700, Charlotte, daughter of 
Jean Chretien. Children : 

a. Charles Amboise, born, Quebec, 1700 ; died 1701. 

b. Charles Paul, born 1702; died 1703. 



DENYS DE ST. SIMON 

Paul Denys, third son of Simon Denys, Sieur de la 
TrhiitcK was Sieur de St. Simon. He was grand provost of 
the " Marechaussee " ; married, Quebec, 1678, Marie Made- 
leine, daughter of Jean Dupeyras, Sieur de Santerre; secondly, 
Marie Theresa, daughter of Ignace Duchesnay, Sieur de Beau- 
port. He died 1737. Children: 

I. Catlierine, born 1679 ; married Dominique Berge- 
ron ; 2d, Guillaume Gaillard. 
n. Louis Madeleine, born 1681. 
HI. Marie Angelique, born 1684. 
IV. Marie Antoinette, born 1686. 

V. Charles Paul, born 1688 ; Seigneur de St. Simon ; 
royal councillor and provost of the Marechaussee ; 
died 1748; married Marie Joseph, daughter of 
Louis Prat, captain of the Port of Quebec. 
Children : 
a. Marie Louise, born 1^14; died 17 17. 

d. Marie Angelique, born 17 16. 

e. Jean Paul, born 1717. 

d. Matheu Paul, born 171 8. 

e. Louise Fran^oise, born 1722. 
/. Marie Madeleine, born 1724. 

g. Marie Jacquette, born and died 1 729. 
h. Anne Charlotte, born, Charlesbourg, 1730. 
i. Paul Charles, born 1733. 

J. Antoine Charles, born 1734; died at Leszanne, 
Hayti, 1785. 



50 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

k. Catherine Angelique, born 1736. 

/. Louis Achilla, born 1738. 

m. Hugues Mathurin, born and died 1739. 

;/. Guillaume Mathurin, born and died 1741. 
VI. ElizabctJi, born 1690; married Mathurin Collet. 
VII. Guillaume Emanuel Theodore, born 1693 ; Sicur 
de Vitre ; married Marie Joseph, daughter of 
Raymond Blaise Des Bergeres, captain of 
Marines and major-commandant at Three Rivers. 
Children : 

a. Theodore Mathieu, born 1724; captain French 

Royal Navy, made prisoner by the English, 
1759, afterwards entered the British Navy as 
captain ; died, England. 

b. Marie Noelle, born 1725. 

e. Pierre Marie, born 1727 ; died 1730. 
VIII. Alexandre, born 1696 ; priest. 
IX. Marie Anne, born 1698 ; married Michel Berthier. 
X. Jean, born 1702. 
XI. Charlotte Franqoise, born, Charlesbourg, 1704. 



Claude Charles Denys (see p. 46), Sieur de la Ronde 
de Bomtaventtire ; born October 19, 1749, captain in Royal 
French navy, chevalier of the Order of St. Louis, Elector of 
the nobility of Aunis (France) in 1787. He was a royalist who 
died in emigration in 1801. He had married in 1790 Jeanne 
Pelagic de Butler, one of the family of the Irish Dukes of 
Ormonde in France. His children were : 
I. Amedic Denys (see below). 

II. Adolphe Denys de Bonnaventure, born 1799, d. s. p. 
1871. 

Amedie Denys de Bonnaventure, born 1796 ; died 1890. 
Officer and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, under Napoleon, 
and Knight of the Order of King Charles III of Spain. He 
married Mile. Laurisseau and had : 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 5 1 

I. Charles (see below). 
II. AcJiille Deiiys dc Bonnai'cutitrc, born 1832, married, 
1857, Emelie de Montlaur de Bonnecarere and had, 
I, Olum ; 2, Marie Louise; 3, Charles, born i860, 
married M. de Chauvigny and had, a, Henry, born 
1893; b, Guy, born 1897; c, Pierre, born 1898. 
III. Eugenie de Bonnaventnre, born 1834, married M. de 
Chievres and had, a, Zenobie de Chievres, born 
1859; married, 1886, the Comte de Nucheze. 
Charles Denys de Bonnaventure (as above), born 
1830; died 187 1 : paymaster of marines at La Rochelle ; 
married Clemence de Villedon de Courson and had Louis 
(as below). 

Louis Denys de Bonnaventure, born i860, councillor 
in France of the Seigneurial Order of Canada (1902-3), re- 
siding at Aytre, Charente Inferieure ; married 1886, Marthe 
de la Rochelrochard and has : 
I. Elizabeth, born 1887. 
II. Jean, born 1889. 



DENYS DE LA RONDE 

Pierre Denys de la Ronde (see p. 48), born, Quebec, 
November 11, 1726. He died May 7, 1772. His sponsors 
were the Marquis de Vaudreuil and Ursule Aubert. He was 
Major in the Marines sent into Louisiana, and also Chevalier 
of the Order of St. Louis. His magnificent estate was situ- 
ated at Algiers, near New Orleans. He married, 1757, 
Madeleine, widow of Louis Xavier Chalmet de Lino, lieuten- 
ant in the Marines. She was daughter of Ignace F. de 
Broutin, captain and engineer, and commandant of the Nat- 
chez Port, by wife, Madeleine Lemaire. He was relative of 
the Marquis de Vaudreuil, last F"rench governor of Canada. 
His children : 

I. Louise, born 1758, at New Orleans, married Col. 
Don Andre Almonaster-Y-Roxas (son of Don Miguel Jose 



52 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Almonaster by his wife, Donna Maria Juanna de Estrada- Y- 
Roxas, both of noble birth and natives of Mayrena, Anda- 
lusia, Spain). He was Knight of the Royal Order of King 
Carlos III, colonel, king's lieutenant-governor and president 
of the Council of Louisiana for King Charles III. Don 
Almonaster is buried in front of the altar of St. Francis of 
Assissis, beneath a marble slab on which is engraved his 
name and arms, his royal honors, and the enumeration of his 
deeds — he having founded the cathedral of St. Louis, the 
palace of justice, the presbytery, several schools for children 
and a hospital for lepers. By this marriage there was one 
daughter : 

Michela Leonarda, born 1795 ; married Joseph C. 
Delfau de Pontalba, lieutenant in the French 
Marine Corps, commandant of the Cotes dcs Allc- 
mands on the Mississippi, son and heir of Xavier 
Delfau, Baron de Pontalba, officer in the army of 
King Charles III, of Spain. 
II. Maj-ic T/icirsc, horn 1759, married Don Juan Pieto, 
New Orleans. 

III. Picnr (below). 

Pierre Deny.s de la Ronde (as above), born, New 
Orleans, 1762; lieutenant in Royal Regiment of Louisiana; 
civil and military governor of St. Barnard Parish ; president 
of the Royal Council (1798-1803); Colonel of the Royal 
Regiment of Louisiana up to the cession to the United 
States, 1803 ; General, commanding the Louisiana troops 
at the Battle of New Orleans (18 14), and chief military 
adviser of General Jackson, by the adoption of whose 
plan the defence of New Orleans was made successful. 
He was member of the Constitutional Convention of Louisiana 
in 18 12. He married Eulalie, daughter of Louis Alexander 
Gerbois, officer in the F'rench army, and left : 

I. Eulalie, born. New Orleans, 1788 ; married Gabriel 
Everille Villere, Colonel of the 3d Regiment of Louisiana at 




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siege of New Orleans in 1814, and son of Maj.-Gen. Jacques 
P. X^illere, second governor of Louisiana. 

II. Elicabetk Celeste, born 1792 ; married Maunsel 
White, colonel in the Mexican War of 1846, and State senator. 

III. Heloise, born 1792. 

IV. Manette, born 1799, married Gen. Casimir Lacoste. 
V. Pepitc, born 1799. 

W. Adelaide Adele, born 1803 ; married the Hon. 
Joseph Adolph Ducros, senator in 1877, son of Rodolphe Jo- 
seph Ducros, a military officer under King Charles III, by- 
wife, Marie Lucie de Reggio. 

VII. Felicite Felicicie, born 1805 ; married Pierre ¥ . 
Jorda, son of Don Jayne Y. F. Jorda and Helene de Reggio. 

VIII. Emilie, born 1807; married Pierre Hoa, son of 
Don Manual Hoa. 

Arms of all these branches of the family of Denys are : 
gules, a grape, argent, over all a count's crown ; the shield 
supported by 2 stags. 

The lordships and seigneuries of the families of Forsyth 
and Denys in Canada were as follows : 

Denys, Lordship of Isle St. Jean (Prince Edwards Island), 1,450,440 acres. 

Denys, Lordship of Cape Breton, 2,119,600 acres. 

Denys, Seigneurie of Fronsac (in New Brunswick), 1,390,600 acres. 

Denys, Seigneurie of Bonnaventure (in Quebec), 2,106,000 acres. 

Forsyth, Seigneurie of Langon (near St. Hyacinthe, P. Q.), 6,000 acres. 

Forsyth, Seigneurie of Anticosti, 1,774,000 acres. 

Total, 8,846,640 acres 



THE INDIVIDUAL 

BY F. G. F. DE FRONSAC 

The race owes everything to the Individual. In viewing 
the Past, the race is proud of the Individual. The present 
greatest achievement of the race is the production of the In- 
dividual ; the future glory of the race is in the possibility of 
the Individual. Yet, frequently and always disastrously, the 
race and the Individual are beheld in conflict. The Past, 
Present and F"uture are ready to fall into the crucible of 
Chaos, to be dissolved from their harmonious union, the 
memory of the first from the reality of the second, from the 
ambition of the third, to lie in unconscious and perishing frag- 
ments, unless drawn together again by a new combination. 
And it is submission to the Individual that reunites the race, 
as it is war against the Individual that causes the race to be 
dissevered. Herein is the law of human progression and 
retrogression as derived from the multitudinous histories of 
the human race. However the abstract testimonials of histo- 
rians may disagree, the concrete testimonials of their subject 
matter, divested from the commenting prejudice of the writers, 
bear witness to the invariability of this law. 

The building up of civilization is ever under the rulership 
of the Individual. This rulership is called monarchy and is 
the government of the first great man who dominates the 
savage tribe of jarring mediocres who are disputing continu- 
ally over the affairs of ordinary living. He leads them by the 
might of his genius along the path, which alone, his far-reach- 
ing vision sees, to the affairs of extraordinary living. These 
affairs are developed in his potent intelligence. He becomes 
the god, the creator of the race, the head, the lightning en- 
deavor that flashes for a while, and causes a momentary light 

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56 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

to send a blessing over the darkness of the age. Then, when 
he departs, he, the Individual, from the confines of terrestrial 
activity, he leaves the ideal of himself as that by which human 
progress and order are to be maintained. By the divine 
power of genius, coming to the dictatorship of affairs, he be- 
queathes his dictatorial authority in a definite manner. It 
goes as a legacy, so that it shall fall to the Individual the best 
born and not to the first discordant self, the meanest Barab- 
bas, half-man of the crowd. What though the Individual who 
inherits the power of Monarchy be not a genius, yet he repre- 
sents the type of that government which genius has bestowed 
as the most natural and orderly for human progress and hap- 
piness. 

The Monarchy, the government of the Individual, is the 
only form of rulership wherein man prospers in his greatness. 
Then the pride, the product and the hope of the race, are in 
security. But so soon as the race is dissevered — breaking 
from this, through a passing madness, like a rabid dog with 
an hundred heads, whose brain has been turned by meaning- 
less words and whose acts are already savored by the corrup- 
tion of a dissolute society, or by some other ways — then 
begins the abolition of the Individual. Every great man is a 
Monarch in embryo, whom the race hastens to destroy, or 
repulses to the pace of mediocres, in order that the embryo 
shall not develop and the crown of human dignity be not 
manifest on his brow. 

The same servile bigotry and the desire for the drunken- 
ness of license and disorder animated the crowd when they 
demanded their Barabbas in their war against the Individual- 
Christ. 

It is the difference of the Individual from the race that 
causes the race to be hostile to his endeavor and to desire to 
destroy his Individuality. Yet it is the Individual alone, who 
possesses the idea and knowledge of power and the ability of 
leadership. It is the government of the Monarch alone, that 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 57 

calls the great men of the state to surround the Throne by 
their glory, and gives to each a place for his peculiar genius. 
It is the government of the democracy — or that of the race 
against the Individual — that crushes individual honor and 
distinction, discourages glory before the rotting charms of 
avarice and tramples the ambition of noble and high-minded 
men beneath the feet of servile and contending factions. 

It has been said, and truly, that the democracy is the gov- 
ernment of races in a state of decay, and however it may be 
brought about, or what might have been the excuse which 
led to its introduction, the fact remains, that the flood-tides 
of evil passion in the majority, by drowning each opposing 
individuality, leaves the most abasing model of nonentity as 
the fashion of mankind. With the government of such in 
lead, the final disaster of the state approaches with a good 
invitation. 



THE DE FRONSAC SUCCESSION 

COUNTS, MARQUISES AND DUGS DE FRONSAC 

The Castle ForsatJi dc Fronsac, which gave a name to the 
family, continued in the possession of the male line clown to 
the fourteenth century, when it was demolished in war, and 
rebuilt. In 1344, at the time of which Froissart writes, it 
had passed into the female line, the Cadet male line having 
emigrated to Scotland, but of this later. (For Cadet line see 
p. 5.) The castle was destroyed and rebuilt, but this time 
as Chateau Fronsac. Several heirs and rivals for its posses- 
sion, representing as many different families, all descended 
from daughters of Forsath de Fronsac, carried on party feuds. 
One of these occupied it against the wishes of the king, who 
was the arbitrator of their dispute. He defied the king's 
general, the Count Dunois, in 1442, to turn him out, beating 
back three desperate assaults of the king's army with great 
slau£:hter before the castle was taken. 

Odet d'Aydie, belonging to the princely house of Foix, 
then was recognized (1472) by the king as Vicomte de Fronsac. 
He was already Jlcomte de Lantrcc. At his death: 

The Seigneur de Gie, Marshal of the Army (1491), was 
the next Vicomte de Fronsac. He was succeeded by his 
cousin : 

Jacques d'Albret, of the princely family of Navarre. He 
was also Marechal de St. Andre. The king, Henry H, 
erected the title into Count de Fronsac in 1 55 i. His relative : 

Antoine de Lustrac was made Marquis de Fronsac in 
1555. The family of Lustrac was ancient and noble in Peri- 
gord. They were Barons de Lias, and Seigneurs of Cana- 
bazes, Cazarac, La Maritinie and Losse. Bernard de Lustrac 

58 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 59 

was Bishop of Rieux and President of the Estates of Langue- 
docque in 1483. Jean de Lustrac married in 15 19 Antonia 
Delluc and was grandsire of the above Marquis de Fronsac. 

Previous to this, the family of Caiiniotit, whose descendant 
was the Due de la Force, and a marshal of France, were 
claiming the title of Comte de Fronsac. Through various 
alliances the title passed next to a distant member of the 
Royal Family of France in the person of : 

P'rancois d'Okleans-Longueville, Comte dc St. Pol, 
whose relative, Henry the Great, King of P>ance, raised it to a 
duchy in 1608. He died without issue in 163 i. 

Arms of Lustrac : — Quarterly ist and 4th, gules three bars 
argent ; 2d and 3d azure, a lion rampant or, crowned of the 
same and armed and membered gules. 

The family of Richelieu succeeded to the title and their 
arms are: — Quarterly ist and 4th, or, three boars' heads 
sable for Vignerot ; 2d and 3d, argent, three cheveronells 
gules for Duplessis de Richelieu. 

Armand Jean Duplessis, Due de Richelieu, Prime Min- 
ister of P" ranee and Cardinal, succeeded to the title of de 
Fronsac in 1634. He was the son of Francois Duplessis, 
Seigneur de Richelieu, and of Susanne de la Porte, born at 
Paris, September 5, 1585, and was descended from the Seign- 
eurs Du Plessis of Poitou, tracing to Lord William Du Plessis 
of 1 20 1. He had two sisters, who married, the first, Rene de 
Vignerot, Lord of Pont-Courlay, the second, Urban de Maille, 
Marquis de Breze, Admiral and Marshal of P^'rance. Armand 
de Richelieu was intended for the military profession, but he 
was persuaded to renounce it and become Bishop of Lugon in 
1607. In the assembly of the States General of 16 14 he was 
Deputy for the Clergy of Poitou. He became next, confessor 
of the Queen Dowager, and in 16 16 he became Secretary of 
State for War and Foreign Affairs. He was made Cardinal 
in 1622, and he was named a member of the King's Council 
in 1624 which he dominated from the time he entered it until 



6o FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

his death eighteen years after, as absohite master of the des- 
tinies of France. That country he raised from the third 
power of Europe to the first place. He could say, as he is 
made to say in Bulwer's Richelieu : 

" I found France rent with heracies and bristling 

With rebellion ... I have recreated France and 

From the ashes of the decrepit, feudal carcass, civilization 

Soars on luminous wings to Jove ..." 

He was a great general as his campaigns before LaRochelle 
and in Italy testify, and although he was a Cardinal of the 
Church of Rome, he was so liberal to the Protestants and 
"heretics" that his enemies called him "Pontiff of the Cal- 
vinists," and "Cardinal of atheists." His maxim was that if 
a man is a good citizen and performs his civil duties that is all 
that can be required of him. He appointed the Prince de 
Rohan, a Protestant, to be general of the armies of France, 
and he sent troops and money to aid Gustavus Adolphus, King 
of Sweden and chief of the Protestants, in his fight against 
Catholic Austria because the political interest of France re- 
quired the humiliation of Spain and Austria, then her most 
powerful enemies. No minister of France has left so great a 
name as RicJielien, and when he died, December 4, 1642, he 
bequeathed the powers of monarchy consolidated for the ad- 
ministration of King Louis XIV, one of the glories of whose 
reign in literature and art may be traced to Richelieu's creation 
of the French Academy — that protector of French genius. 

Rene de Vignerot, Due de Richelieu, Dug de 
P'ronsac, etc., succeeded the Cardinal, being adopted as his 
heir and successor, he having married Richelieu's elder sister. 
But as they had no children the title passed, at his death, to 
the family of : 

Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, who had married, in 
1 64 1, Claire Clemence de Maille-Breze, niece of the Cardinal 
Minister, the Due de Richelieu and de PVonsac. The Prince 




RICHELIEU AND FATHER JOSEPH. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 6 I 

of Conde, siirnamed the Great, was born in 1621. He was 
General-in-Chief of the armies of France. His campaigns are 
among the most glorious in the annals of Europe. He con- 
quered Germany, Spain and Austria. Wherever he went he 
bore the standard of victory. He was also the patron of 
Corneille and Racine. The history of his life would make 
volumes, and of his race, a library. His grandfather was the 
Prince de Conde, the Huguenot, and cousin of King Henry IV. 
He died December 11, 1689. 

Armand Jean de Vignerot-Duplessis, Dug de Riche- 
lieu, Dug de Fronsac, General of the Galleys of France, 
succeeded the Prince and Princess de Conde in the titles of 
Richelieu and Fronsac, being nephew of the Princess de 
Conde, Duchess de Fronsac, and her heir. He married Anne 
Marguerite d'Acigne. His eldest son was : 

Louis Frangois-Armand de Vignerot-Duplessis, Due 
de Richelieu, Due de P'ronsac and Marshal of France. He 
was baptized as the Due de Fronsac in 1699, being held in 
the arms of the King and Duchess of Burgundy. He 
entered the army as a musketeer and served so well at the 
Battle of Denain, that he was named aide-de-camp to Marshal 
Villars. In Dumas' novels the story of Richelieu's implica- 
tion in the conspiracy of Cellamare has the romantic flavor 
of trying to release France from the odious ministry of that 
Dubois, who had come into power with the regency which 
succeeded the death of King Louis XIV, — and Dubois has 
been well-painted by Dumas, especially in his book, "Zrt Fille 
du- Regiment!' On account of the elegance of Richelieu's mind 
and talent his admirers had him elected to the French Acad- 
emy. In 1720 he was received in Parliament as a peer of 
France. After the death of Dubois, he was relieved from the 
jealousy of that minister. He was named in 1727 ambassa- 
dor to Vienna. His success as a diplomat in defeating the 
designs of Spain at the Austrian court established his reputa- 
tion for wisdom and tact. In the wars of Germany which 



62 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

succeeded he passed rapidly to promotions by his distinguished 
bravery and miHtary talents, being brigadier in 1733 and 
Marcchal dc Camp in 1738. He raised, armed and equipped, 
at his own expense for the king, a regiment of dragoons called 
Septimenic, of which his son, the young Due de Fronsac, 
then (1744) but nine years of age, was named colonel by the 
king, while the father was made lieutenant-general. But his 
greatest success was the victory of Fontenoy, which his tact 
and skill won from the English, after Marshal de Saxe and 
King Louis XV had abandoned all hope of the day, and the 
English were advancing to drive the French into the river. 
The story of this is told in the Due de Broglie's " Diplomatie 
Contemporaine," published a few years ago in the Revue des 
Deux Maudes, at Paris. In 1748, sent with an inferior 
French force, he was able to deliver Genoa from the English 
and was proclaimed Liberator by that government and was 
made marshal of France. It was at this time that Madame 
de Pompadour was holding "high carnival at the court of 
France " as mistress of the king. She thought to do herself 
honor by proposing to marry a daughter whom she had had 
by Lenormand d'Etioles to the Due de P'ronsac, son of the 
Marshal de Richelieu. He gave his refusal in the following 
manner: "That it would surely be too great an honor, but 
that as his son through his mother belonged to the House of 
Lorraine, it would be necessary for her to ask permission 
of the head of that house, who was the empress-queen." 
P'or this reply, Madame de Pompadour never forgave 
Richelieu. 

In the campaign against England of 1756 he chased her 
armies from Fort Mahon and in 1757 conquered Hanover 
and captured the entire British army of the Duke of Cumber- 
land. He married three times : First, a daughter of the Due 
de Noailles, secondly, Mile, de Guise, Princess de Lorraine 
of the imperial family of Austria (by whom he had two sons, 
the Due de Fronsac, and a daughter who married the Comte 




THE GREAT CONDE. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 63 

d'Egmont), and thirdly, in 1780, Madame de Rothe. He 
was called "the man of his centm-y." He died August 8, 
1788. 

Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Due de Fronsac, 
eldest son of the above, by the Princess of Lorraine, married 
first Mile. d'Hautefort, secondly, Mile, de Galifet. His son 
was : 

Armand Emmanuel de Vignerot-Duplessis, Due de 
RieHELiEu, Due de Fronsac, Minister of State under Louis 
XVHL He commenced, by a brilliant course of studies at 
Du Plessis College, one of the noble foundations of Cardinal 
Richelieu. Without neglecting literature, he became a great 
linguist, speaking with easy fluency German, English, Italian 
and Russian. He was married very young to Mile, de 
Rochechouart, but had no children. In order to learn the 
service of arms he entered the Russian army as commander 
of battalion under Marshal Souvarovv in the Turkish cam- 
paign, in which for merit and bravery he received a golden 
sword from the Empress Catherine. This was during the 
French Revolution, when the royalty and nobility of France 
were scattered in foreign parts. The Emperor Alexander 
appointed him in 1803 governor of Southern Russia, and 
Odessa, which he found a miserable village without a street, 
became under his management the most beautiful and pros- 
perous city of eastern Europe, gaining 80,000 inhabitants 
during the eleven years of his administration. His new 
government he protected by military skill from the inroads 
of Turks, Bulgarians and Circassians. He founded more 
than 100 villages in this part of Russia and proved himself 
by his humanity and justice a most able ruler. After the 
Bourbons were restored in France in 18 15, Richelieu returned 
and was named Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of 
the Council. In this capacity he was to negotiate the particu- 
lars of a treaty which had been imposed on France by the 
different Powers, which would have deprived France of strong 



64 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

places, territory and population. By his personal influence 
with Alexander of Russia, he won over that Power, and 
obtained a great amelioration of the hardships which the 
others had imposed on France. For his great services to 
the State when he retired from his office of minister of 
state, the king and parliament accorded him an immense 
indemnity which he employed in founding a hospital in 
Bordeaux. When King George IV ascended the throne of 
England, the Due de Richelieu and de Fronsac was sent to 
represent the King of France. Again in 1820, he was called 
to be President of the Council of Ministers, which office he 
resigned the next year. He died in Paris, May 17, 1822. 



THE VISCOUNT DE FRONSAC IN THE 

SEIGNEURIAL ORDER OF CANADA 

Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, Governor and 
Viceroy of Acadia, Gaspasia and Newfoundland (for pedigree 
see p. 43). He was born in the city of Tours in 1598 ; son 
of Jacques Denys, Sievir de la Thibaudiere, Captain of the 
Royal Guard, and Mile. Cosnier de Besseau whose brother, 
Emilien Cosnier, was one of the " Hundred Gentlemen of the 
King." Nicolas and his brother Simon were the chosen 
heirs of Captain Jehan Denys and his wife, Marguerite 
Forsyth de Fronsac of Honfleur, to claims which Capt. 
Jehan Denys had in America, deriving through their common 
ancestor, Captain Jehan Denys, the great explorer of 1506. 
In 1632 he obtained the favor of his relative, the Cardinal 
Richelieu, who gave him a commission in the military suite of 
the admiral, Isaac de Launoy, Comte de Razilli, who was 
ready to sail to America as Governor of the Maritime 
Provinces of Canada. In addition, Denys was named lord 
proprietor and governor of Cape Breton. In this new field 
he established the towns of Chedebuctoo (Guysborough) and 
St. Pierre, and founded the fort at Canso and another, which 
was his chief residence, at Nipisiguit. He brought over 
colonists from France, instituted the culture of cereals and 
promoted the fisheries and fur trade. He chased the English 
out of the islands of Brion and La Madeleine. The prosperity 
he was building up excited the cupidity and envy of rivals 
(after the death of de Razilli) all the more because he, as a 
man of education, was liberal in religious views. De Razilli 
had named Denys as his successor in the government, but the 
cabal of rivals planned to deprive him of that office and of 
his lands as well. One Giraudiere, recognized by the others 

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66 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

as governor, took ship and sailed for Cape Breton for this 
purpose. Denys was employing his men about commercial 
labors when the enemy appeared with an armed ship. Girau- 
diere attempted to terrorize Denys' men by declaring himself 
to be the king's governor, that Denys was under arrest, and 
that those who defied the king's authority would be guilty of 
high treason. But Denys was not to be intimidated. He 
persuaded some of his men to man the fort, and training his 
guns on Giraudiere's ship he threatened to sink it if Girau- 
diere approached nearer. At the same time, to quiet the 
fears of his men, he offered to go to France with Giraudiere 
and let the king decide between them. To this Giraudiere 
agreed. And the king not only confirmed Denys in the gov- 
ernorship of Acadia, Gaspasie and Newfoundland, etc., by 
commission of January 30, 1654, but made him viceroy, with 
power to make treaties of trade and war or peace for the 
protection of the king's dominion and with the privilege of 
s:rantin<r honors for the advancement of merit. All officers 
of the king coming from over sea in Denys' government were 
ordered to obey Denys as they would the king. But a great 
calamity came on Denys which paralyzed his further efforts 
for the country. By a conflagration at St. Pierre his ships and 
store-houses were burned. Then he retired to his chateau at 
Nipisiguit and wrote his history of North America with a 
natural history of the country — the first history of America 
in the French language, which was published at Paris in 1672, 
on one of the visits which he made to his wife and daughter 
who were at Honfleur. He was recommended by Talon, the 
intendant of New P^ ranee, to be recognized as succeeding to 
the title of de Fronsac, which title, as a seigneurie, was 
awarded him in the Seigneurial Order of New France by the 
king, Louis XIV. The historian Charlevoix declares Denys 
de P^ronsac to have been one of the best instructed and most 
useful governors of New France. That Denys saw in Canada 
a place of future power, wealth and empire, the exquisitely 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 6j 

written preface of the history addressed to the king- is brought 
in evidence : " Sire, — The effects of Your Royal protection 
make themselves so efficacious wherever navigation and com- 
merce extend, that if my duty and inclination had not led me 
to inscribe this work to you, I would have been obliged to do 
it by the weight of reason. Canada has commenced to 
breathe only since the attention of Your Majesty has given 
fresh vitality to this wavering colony. Truly, Acadia would 
have been in the hands of our neighbors had not the same 
care watched for what would enrich your subjects through 
maritime commerce ; but, Sire, since the country of which I 
take the liberty to present you with a description, forms the 
principal part of New France, the most useful and the easiest 
peopled, I dare to hope that Your Majesty might make to it 
some application of that universal means by which we see 
every day abundance brought out of what was former))- 
unfruitful. Thirty-five or forty years of frequentation and 
dwelling in this part of America where, for the last fifteen years, 
I have had the honor to command for Your Majesty, have given 
me a knowledge of its fertilit}'. I have had leisure to examine 
and be convinced of the advantages offered for naval archi- 
tecture, and of the means for establishing permanent fisheries 
with an almost incredible gain in economy. . . . Sire, this 
country, such and better yet than I can represent it, in order 
to become profitable, has need of those fortunate influences 
which Your Majesty may see among his neighbors. The 
treasures with which Spain is enriched might, jierhaps, be yet 
in America, but for the encouragement given to Christopher 
Columbvis by Ferdinand and Isabella. 

" Although they were but quasi-conjectures of the country 
which he proposed to discover, and the riches thereof, now 
real, were but in imagination, his constancy triumphed over 
the refusals which he had received from others and a favoring 
audience gained for the king of Spain that which the prede- 
cessors of Your Majesty had treated as a chimera. Sire, I 



68 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

do not propose the discovery of an unknown land or promise 
mines of gold. There may be such in New France. I offer 
only the experience I have gained after so many years. I 
hope that these will procure an audience, which will give me 
the means of explaining to Your Majesty those things which 
I cannot make public. In awaiting this grace, find it well. 
Sire, that with my work, I consecrate what yet remains of life 
to the service of Your Majesty, and that this offers an occa- 
sion of testifying, with how much zeal, respect and submission 
I am Your Majesty's very humble, very obedient and very 
faithful subject and serviteur. Den vs." 

He married, in Tours, Marguerite de la Faye, who remained 
in France. He died about 1687 at Nipisiguit. He had one 
son and a daughter who married her cousin, Capt. James 
Forsaith. He was succeeded by his only son : 

Richard Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, Governor of 
Gaspasie and Seigneur of Miramichi. The seigneurie, named 
de Fronsac from his father's title, which he inherited in New 
Brunswick, embraced 390,600 acres and is marked in the map 
of the Acadian period of New Brunswick in the Transactions of 
the Royal Society of Canada for 1900. The Strait between 
Cape Breton and the main land had been named de Fronsac, 
also in honor of his father, but under the English administra- 
tion these souvenirs of the founder of Cape Breton have been 
assiduously removed. Richard was born in Tours. He 
married first, Anne I'arabego. second, Fran(joise, daughter of 
Jaccjues Cailteau, Sieur de Champfleury. He was drowned 
by the vessel in which he was sailing at the time being de- 
stroyed in a storm. He was succeeded by his son : 

Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de Fronsac, whose entire 
family with himself perished in an epidemic in the year 1732. 
The next heir was : 

The Hon. Matthew Forsaith (for pedigree see p. 16), 
descended from Capt. James Forsaith and Marguerite Denys 
de Fronsac, iclaughter of the Gov. Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de 



FORSYTH DE F RON SAC 



69 



Fronsac, etc. Matthew was born in County Ayr, Scotland, 
in 1699. He was endowed b)* nature and favored by educa- 
tion. His father's immediate family were friendly to the cause 
of the Stuarts, whom they regarded as the legitimate sovereigns 
of the country, and they were said to have been implicated in 
the Earl of Marr's uprising of 171 5. At any rate, suspicions 
of the partisans of the House of Hanover were so strong 
against them that they were obliged to leave Scotland. In 




STRAIT OF FRONSAC, MISNAMED CANSO 

Engraving courtesy of Plant S. .S. Co. 



escaping, it is said that Matthew wounded one of the Whig- 
officers with his sword. He sought safety for a time in 
Ireland, where his royalist convictions were much strengthened 
by beholding the injurious effects of parliamentary govern- 
ment there. He married Esther, daughter of Robert Graham 
of County Fermanagh, whose wife, Janet Hume, belonged to 
the noble family of Hume of Castle Hume and Hume 
Wood, whose estates have passed to the present Eord Loftus, 
Marquis of Ely. The Grahams had settled in Ireland since 



70 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

1620 (one of whom was Sir Hector Graham of Lea Castle). 
They were from the Cumberland border and were descended 
from the Earls of Menteath. The Grahams persuaded him 
to go to America with them and a number of other families 
who were desirous of escaping from the parliamentary abuses 
which were heaped on the country. They landed at Boston 
— Matthew, his wife and sons — about 1740, and moved to 
the Presbyterian colony at Chester, New Hampshire. He 
had brought with him much wealth in money and family 
plate, and he purchased to begin with the Worthen Mill, and 
the saw and grist-mills. He found himself surrounded by a 
singular population — the Puritan Yankee — jealous, suspi- 
cious, avaricious, religiously intolerant and hypocritical. In 
this inhospitable element, the little Presbyterian colony was 
as isolated as though in a desert. From the first, Matthew 
became the chief man and counsellor of the settlement. He 
represented the Presbyterian parish before the provincial 
legislature, was deacon of the church, and consented to lect- 
ure during the absence of the minister. But a hostile par- 
liament followed the few partisans of the Stuarts who had 
crossed the sea in company with others. Twelve of the 
thirteen colonies had received charters from the Stuart kings, 
and although these charters had been modified, the sense of 
them recognized the Stuart heir as king. Hence the desire 
of the London parliament to revoke them. The result gave 
an excuse to the radicals, factious and disloyal to any prin- 
ciple, in the colonies, to join the enemies of the empire in 
1776, to turn the true cause for a Stuart declaration into the 
propaganda of a hybrid republic. But until this propaganda 
was revealed all parties were united to resist parliamentary 
encroachment. Matthew, himself, became President of the 
Chester Committee of Public Safety in 1776, but he was 
distinctly opposed to democratic tendencies. He lived long 
enough, however, to see the "Republic" established and to 
have his royalism confirmed by the treachery, insincerity. 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC /I 

vulgarity and c)nicisni of its government. He died in 1790, 
leaving as a legend to his family the phrase : "A royal form 
of government conduces to the best interests of a people." 
His principal heir was : 

William Forsaith (V'icomte de Fronsac), ensign in royal 
colonial troops, born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1740. 
He was educated in his father's household, for there was no 
school or college in the colonies superior in advantages to 
that household. While yet very young, he was solicited 
to teach those of Chester some of the higher studies. Dur- 
ing the Indian War of 1.763-65 he entered the royal colonial 
militia, became ensign, was wounded, taken prisoner and 
remained a captive among the Indians for two years. Wlien 
the troubles began between the Metropolis and the Colonies, 
he signed the articles of the "Minute Men," who were obli- 
gated by these articles to, I, Defend the person, Crown and 
dignity of the king; to, II, Defend the chartered liberties of 
the colonies, and to, III, Obey superior officers with armed 
support. So long as the chartered liberties were threatened, 
the "Minute Men" were in arms, but in 1778, when the 
British Parliament restored all those liberties and conceded 
to the demands of the colonists, the " Minute Men " dis- 
banded. William, as a royalist ofificer, who had sworn to 
support the king before and as a " Minute Man," could not 
look with approval on the dishonest position assumed by 
the American Congress party after 1778, and he retired 
to his farm at Deny, now Deering, N. H. He was 
too intelligent not to perceive that the democracy that 
was arising would sweep away the refinements and honors 
that had been bred in colonial society under the Royal gov- 
ernment. With two others he founded the Deny Public 
Library. He had married Jane, daughter of James Wilson, 
" Surveyor of the High Ways of Chester," who had come 
from Ulster, Ireland, and lived to the remarkable age of 118. 
James Wilson's wife was Mary, daughter of John Shirley, 



72 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

cousin of Sir William Shirley, who was Governor of Massa- 
chusetts in 1 74 1, and Commander-in-Chief of the British 
forces in North America, whose family arms are emblazoned 
on the illuminated window at the State House in Boston, 
with those of the other royal governors of that colony. It is 
stated in Chase's History of Chester that John Shirley was 
a relative also of the Countess of Huntington, the patron of 
Westley. William died at Deering in 1808. His son was : 

Thomas Forsaith, entitled de Fronsac in 1798. He 
was born in Deering, N. H., September i, 1775. At the 
age of eleven, in charge of^a— Ge«»tn who was an officer 
in the merchant marine, he was sent to France to be educated. 
During the French Revolution of 1792, he joined the Royalists, 
brigade de Navarre, Marquis de Montmarte commanding, with 
the Prussians and Austrians against the French Republicans. 
In 1798, he was entitled de Fronsac in the correspondence of 
the Emegres. He went to the French West Indies in the 
same year on some mission and finally to Savannah, Ga., 
in 1800. He entered into the West India trade after the 
sale of Louisiana, by Napoleon I, to the United States in 
1803, settling at Portland, Me., where he joined the 
Masonic Order and was junior warden of the Ancient Land- 
mark Lodge. He was interested with the earliest project of 
a railway from Montreal to Portland in 1836, completed in 
1854, after his death. He was a fine musician on the violon- 
cello, versed in languages, history and literature, and a com- 
petent man of affairs. He married, in 1809, Sallie, daughter 
of Capt. John Pray of the colonial service, by wife, Mary, 
daughter of Col. John Hamilton who had raised a regiment 
for the Crown in North Carolina, in 1776, and who was 
British Consul at Norfolk, Va., after the war of 1776-83. 
The Prays were also of French origin, from the Praye family 
of Lausanne, whose arms are : " D'azur, au coeur d'or entre 
deux etoiles en premier et une croissant en pointe, d' argent." 
Thomas died at Portland, in December, 1849, and is buried 




CAPT. FREDERIC FORSYTH 

Vicomte de Fronsac in the Seigneurial Order of Canada 

( 1819-1891) 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 73 

in the Western Cemetery. He was a man of sterling charac- 
ter and resolution, kind to the poor, setting apart each year a 
sum of money to purchase provisions for the indigent. His 
son was : 

Captain Frederic Forsyth, Viscount de Fronsac in 
the Seigneurial Order of Canada, etc., born at Portland, 
March 22, 18 19. After an academic education and military 
training he entered his father's exporting office on Ingraham's 
Wharf until the discovery of gold in California, in 1849, when 
he joined with Captain Thing, of Boston, to raise a military 
company of pioneers to march across the plains to the gold- 
fields of California. The party of seventy-iive, armed as 
mounted riflemen, proceeded to St. Louis and from there 
after weeks of hardship, danger and hostile adventure in the 
Indian country, during which time they lost fifteen men, they 
arrived. Not blessed by fortune in the gold mines, he went to 
Nicaragua and was agent for the English Navigation Com- 
pany at Realejo. He returned to Portland, to learn for the 
first time of the death of his father, which occurred soon after 
he had started with the pioneers. He commanded there an 
independent company, called the Rifle Corps, which had been 
founded in 1 8 10 by Judge A. A. Atherton, son of an United Em- 
pire Loyalist of 1776-83, many of whose members were of Brit- 
ish or Canadian origin. This company in i860, on the occasion 
of the visit at Portland of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales 
(now King Edward \ll), was joined to another, the whole 
under command of Captain Forsyth, as the guard of honor of 
the Prince during his stay in Portland. In 1879, with his 
elder son and some gentlemen in Canada and in the States, 
they organized the Aryan Order of St. George of the Empire, 
which in itself is a reorganization of all the royalist orders 
that had existed on the American continent since the time of 
the Emperor Charles Quint, in the i6th century, who by 
imperial decree had incorporated his estates in America with 
the Holy Roman Empire. The principal of these royalist 



74 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

orders reorganized in the Aryan Order are the descendants 
of the Seigneurial Order of Canada and Louisiana ; of the 
Order of the Baronets of Nova Scotia ; of the United Empire 
LoyaHsts, of 1776-83 ; of the Landgraves and Caciques of 
Carolina ; of the Lords of the Manours of Maryland ; of the 
Lords Patroons of New Netherlands, etc. The membership 
of the order is confined to such descendants, none being- 
eligible but those of the White, or Aryan race. The purpose 
of the order is to secure the recognition of titles which any 
of the descendants might be possessed of legitimately, and to 
preserve armorials, genealogies and traditions connected with 
the various royalist regimes to which the orders belonged 
on the American continent. Captain Forsyth, Viscount de 
Fronsac, was the first Chancellor of the Order. The first 
meeting was held October 28, 1880, in the Maryland His- 
torical Society's Hall in Baltimore, where the second Chan- 
cellor, Lieut. -Gen. A. P. Stewart, of Mississippi, was elected. 
The apparent bearing of the Order was commented on in the 
American press from one end of the country to the other. 
The New York press declared that it aimed at overthrowing 
the republic and establishing an empire. The Philadelphia 
press and others said it was a serious menace to republican 
institutions. Most of its membership began to be recruited 
in the South and the headquarters in 1892 — a year after the 
death of Captain F'orsyth — were moved to Savannah, Ga., 
under the Chancellorship of Dr. Joseph Gaston Bulloch of 
that city, since which time, owing to such members there not 
seeing the anomaly between belonging to an order with a 
royal foundation and professing adherence to the preambles 
of a republic at the same time, a division has resulted, and 
the royalist members have transferred their headquarters to 
Canada. 

Captain P'orsyth in addition had been a member of the 
Odd Fellows and of the New England Society of California 
Pioneers. He was a man of high honor, to do his duty as 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 75 

he conceived it ; he was hospitable, high-minded, chivah-ous ; 
patient under difficulties ; serene and unmoved amidst the clash 
of misfortune; a "gentleman of the old school " to the last. 
He died June 11, 189 1, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery. 
His wife, who survived him until 1898, was Harriette Marie, 
daughter of Major-General Joseph Scott Jewett, of Scar- 
borough, Me. (see p. 88). By her he had two sons, Frederic 
Gregory and Thomas Scott (see p. 80). He changed the 
spelling of the name Forsaith to the one-time form of Forsyth. 
His elder son : 

Frederic Gregorv For.syth de Fkonsac, vicomte in the 
Seigneurial Order of Canada, was born in Montreal, but lived 
from infancy in the United States. The close contact in 
which he was brought to the republic ; the picture of its un- 
ethical cynicism and misrule ; of the middle classes destroyed 
in cjuarrels between those who, by dishonesty and intrigue 
with politicians, have acquired millions as monopolists on the 
one hand, and the ravenous, ignorant and self-seeking labor- 
organizations on the other ; of universal equality relieved only 
by the money value of each individual to the extinction of 
every idea of honor, tradition and merit ; no orderly subordi- 
nation ; no discipline ; no monarchical idea of fealty that 
purifies the soul and makes it leal by its teaching of self- 
abnegation ; — from this contact, as an author, he could speak 
with experience. His first poem was published at the age of 
13. In French and English periodicals he contributed to the 
history of England, I^'rance, Canada, United States, and also to 
general historical reviews of other lands. He is quoted in the 
Carmichael Edition of Taswell-Langmead's " Constitutional 
History of England " as one of the most reliable of the better 
class of American historians. He is considered an authority 
on heraldry. In 1893 he was attached for military course to 
the school of the Royal Canadian Infantry at Fredericton, 
N. B: In 1895, anticipating the need of the loyalists and 
seigneurs in Canada, he founded the United Empire Loyalist 



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Association at Montreal and was its first president, being suc- 
ceeded the same year by Sir William Johnson, Baronet of 
Chambly, and becoming himself Marechal de Blason of the 
Seigneurial Order of Canada — the Baron de Longiieuil being 
the chancellor — both of these deriving from the precedent of 
the Aryan Order of St. George of the Empire of 1879-80. 
Spreading rapidly, the United Empire Loyalist Association, 
as he founded it, established headquarters at Montreal, Toronto 
(1896), and Halifax {1897); a previous branch succeeding the 
Aryan Order of 1879-80 had been established in 1883 at 
St. John, N. B. The efforts of the l())'alists effaced the an- 
nexation propaganda that Yankee intrigue was fostering in 
Canada and did more to exalt the royalist influence and im- 
perial connection than all the commercial schemes, preferential 
trade formulae and imperial league teachings combined, and 
which appeared only after the loyalists had led the way — for 
they had with them that which Burke said (tradition) "Though 
lighter than air holds stronger than iron," what Beaconsfield 
declared (sentiment) " Is sole foundation of national greatness." 
His last project of 1903 of introducing into Canada a colony 
of French royalist families, whose sons' future, denied by the 
French Republic, would cause them to be glad to come if 
given encouragement, was favored by the royalist press of 
Canada, English and French, and may bring fruit. The 
Seigneurial Order, of which he is the Herald-Marshal, was 
established by King Louis XIV in Canada in 1663 : its rights, 
titles and precedence were recognized by King George of 
England in the "Capitulations of Montreal " of 1760, and to 
the Seigneurs who defended Quebec against the American 
invasion of 1775 additional recognition had been given in the 
act which accorded precedence "To those and their children 
who joined the royal standard in the late war (1775-83)." 
Founded on these recognitions and obligations from the French 
and British crowns, he has advanced the dignity of the 
Seigneurial Order to its present position. 




FREDERIC GREGORY FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 
Vicomte de Fronsac in Seigneurial Order of Canada 



BIOGRAPHIES 

Capt. Alexander Forsyth was born at Failzerton Manor, 
Ayrshire, 1689; son of Walter Forsyth, provost of the 
College and Subdeaneries of Glasgow (see p. 19), by wife, his 
cousin, Margaret, daughter of Capt. James Forsaith * of the 
French service, who married Marguerite, daughter of the Vis- 
count and Governor Nicolas Denys de Fronsac, of Acadia, etc. 
Like his brother James he was attached to the cause of 
legitimate monarchy in the person of the Stuart Kings, and 
favored the stand taken by Lord Marr in 171 5. On the un- 
fortunate issue of that cause, he came to Boston, where, on 
December 12, 1717, he married Miss Elizabeth Evans, of 
Boston, and entered into the life of the New World. With 
the wealth which he had inherited and brought with him he 
became interested in the foreign commerce of the town, and 
by his education, refinement of person and energy, he was 
recognized speedily as one of the foremost among the resident 
gentry. In the course of his residence he filled many and 
important occasions. His military experience caused him to 
be chosen as captain in the Colonial regiment. In 1733 he 
was on the committee of freeholders to chose seven selectmen. 
Before this, in 1724, he was a commissioner of the colony to 
draw up a treaty with the Western Indians of New England. 
In 1735 and for many years after he was selectman of Boston, 
and his autograph is printed in the second volume of the 
Memorial History of Boston. In 1742 he was one of the mili- 
tary commission to plan the fortifications about Boston. 
Throughout these years, as selectmen, he was on the com- 
mittee of visitation of the public institutions in company with 
the governor and His Majesty's justices. He was a patron of 

* The ai in French is pronounced like y in Scottish or English ; Forsaith-Forsyth. 



78 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

art and literature and one of the subscribers to the fund for 
the pubHcation of Prince's " Chronology." 

In the meantime his first wife, Ehzabeth, died July 28, 1726, 
aged 30, leaving three small children, one of whom, John, 
died September 8, 1727, aged 14 months; both buried in 
tomb 65, Copp's Hill Cemetery, Boston. About 1730 he 
married again for second wife, Miss Deborah Briggs, of 
Boston, and by her had a son John. At the close of the 
Colonial War in 1763 he returned to Ayrshire, Scotland, 
being accompanied by his wife and son John, where he died 
" full of years and honors," and in the consciousness of having 
done his duty with integrity and zeal in a long and busy 
career. 



James Bennett Forsyth was born in Brookline, a suburb 
of Boston, Mass., February 2, 1850. His parents moved to 
the Roxbury District of Boston while he was very young. 
On account of the unsatisfactory condition of his health, he 
was frequently kept out of school for long periods, and a 
great deal of the time he passed in the office and factories of 
the Boston Belting Company, with which his father was con- 
nected, and which were, and still are, located in the Roxbury 
District of Boston. He became greatly interested in the 
machinery and manufacture of vulcanized rubber. After his 
health was restored, he returned again to school. Later on, 
by advice of physicians, he was taken away entirely from the 
public school, as the state of his health would not permit of 
the confinement of study in a schoolroom, and continued his 
education under private instruction. 

He continued to interest himself in the manufacture of 
vulcanized rubber, and, later on, while yet very young, he 
became connected with the factories of the Company, where, 
in process of time, he filled all the important positions at the 
factories, such as clerk, assistant superintendent, superin- 
tendent, manufacturing agent, and director, and for nearly 





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twenty years (1884-1903) he has filled the position of director 
and general manager of the entire business of the Company. 
It has been very largely through his efforts that the Com- 
pany has prospered so wonderfully. 

He has made many important and useful inventions, all 
connected with the machinery and manufactures of the Com- 
pany, and has taken out more than fifty patents on machinery 
and manufacturing processes. A few of his inventions are : 
I, machinery for the manufacture of that kind of hose which 
is made of duck, or canvas, coated with rubber, and which is 
used very extensively in all civilized countries ; 2, for the art 
of lining textile tubes with rubber so as to fit them for use 
as hose for conducting water, air, etc. Hose of this kind is 
in general use in fire-departments throughout the civilized 
world. It is used also extensively in railway stations and 
repair-shops, public buildings, in mills, factories, on ship-board, 
and wherever a strong, light-weight and durable hose is re- 
quired ; 3, rubber-covered rollers, now considered indispen- 
sable for squeezing, sizing, and calendaring purposes in cotton, 
woolen, paper, and wool-scouring mills, print and dye works, 
bleacheries, tanneries, etc. ; 4, improved methods in the manu- 
facture of rubber, gutta percha, and balata machine belting, 
used for transmitting power, coal, grain and ore conveyors, 
etc. 

His knowledge of the manufacture of mechanical rubber 
goods, general management of all branches of the business, 
and his inventions, have added greatly to the great success, 
prosperity, and unrivalled reputation of the Company. 

His father was the late William Forsyth, referred to in the 
genealogy (p. 20). His mother's family, the Bennetts, of 
which her father, Hamilton Bennett, was a member, was 
known in England from the time of the Norman Conquest in 
1066. The title of the family chief is Earl of Tankarville, 
one of whom, the Earl of Arlington, in 1663, was father-in 
law of the Duke of Grafton, natural son of King Charles II 



8o FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Hamilton Bennett, Esq., father of Mrs. William Forsyth, 
was descended also from the Hamiltons of Boreland, in Ayr- 
shire, Scotland, who count as their ancestor that David 
Hamilton, Lord of Cadzow, who is ancestor also of the Duke 
of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland. 



Thomas Scott Forsyth, son of Captain Frederic, Vis- 
count de Fronsac, by Harriette M., daughter of Gen. J. S. 
Jewett, educated in academic course, became devoted to music 
vocal and instrumental, to the dramatic art, elocution and 
literature. He was a pupil of Don Giovanni. In the exer- 
cise of his profession he became quite noted as a journalistic 
letter writer and for storiettes. He drilled pupils and pro- 
duced several dramatic sketches of his own composition in 
Boston, New York and Philadelphia. He has been organist 
of churches in those cities and made the reputation, in 1902- 
1903, of the Second Reformed Presbyterian Church of Phil- 
adelphia for Sunday musical programmes. As a choir-master, 
and student of the historic progression of music, he has few 
equals among the younger generation of New World musi- 
cians. He is an Odd Fellow and on the Council of the 
Seigneurial Order of Canada, as well as on that of the United 
Empire Loyalists. 

Col. Joseph Bell Forsyth, of Quebec. He was son of 
James Bell Forsyth (see p. 11), by wife, F'anny, daughter of 
the Hon. Matthew Bell, who raised, at his own expense, a 
squadron of cavalry at Quebec, in 18 12, who had come from 
Scotland bringing over the first pack of hunting hounds ever 
seen at Three Rivers, Canada, and induced the king to give a 
cup, to be called the " Kijig's Citp," to be run for every year on 
the Three Rivers Course for the improvement of horses in 
Canada. This course is held now at Quebec and Montreal, alter- 
nately. The Hon. Mr. Bell was also a prominent member of the 




THOMAS SCOTT FORSYTH 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 01 

government and the heir of the Earldom of Cromarty in Scot- 
land, deriving in direct line from that earl who was so gallant a 
supporter of the cause of the Stuarts. As his eldest child, 
Fanny, married the father of Colonel Forsyth, it left Colonel 
Forsyth in direct heirship to this title, which had been borne by 
the noble family of Mackenzie. Colonel Forsyth has been for 
many years Collector of Customs for the Port of Quebec. 
He was the one who promoted the formation of the school 
for cavalry instruction at Quebec and was its first comman- 
dant. He succeeded to the command of the Quebec Cavalry 
Regiment (founded by his grandfather, the Hon. Matthew 
Bell), which was named, by permission of Queen Victoria, 
"The Queen's Canadian Hussars." He was one of the pro- 
moters of the Garrison Club of Quebec and its first presi- 
dent. He wears medals commemorative of the Fenian raids 
and for long service. For years he has been prominent in 
Church of England work and a warden of the church. He 
married Elizabeth M., daughter of the late T. B. Anderson, 
president of the Bank of Montreal, and granddaughter of the 
Hon. John Richardson, of the firm of Forsyth and Richard- 
son, of Montreal, who were agents for the North West Fur 
Company, the early rivals of the Hudson Bay Fur Company. 



Rev. Alexander John Forsyth, LL.D., was born January 
I, 1769, at Belhelvie, near Aberdeen, where his father, the Rev. 
James Forsyth, was minister and whom he succeeded in 
pastoral charge in 1791. He was educated at King's College, 
Aberdeen, where he took the degree of M.A. He was very 
greatly interested in chemical experiments, especially with 
fulminating powders and explosive compounds. He invented 
the percussion lock for musketry and the fulminate to accom- 
pany it. By this invention, the use of the fiint-lock was done 
away with and the entire method of modern warfare relating to 
musketrv was changed. The Emperor Napoleon, appreciating 



82 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

the serious consequences of this invention, offered him the 
title of Count of the Empire, a position at his court and 
;^40,ooo ($200,000) for him to come to France and give his 
invention to the French government. But Mr. Forsyth, with 
a bhndness to his own personal advancement and to the glory 
of his own achievements, offered his invention freely to the 
British government. Lord Brougham, who was in the minis- 
try at that time, and a distant relative, opened for him a room 
in the Tower of London for the conduction of his experi- 
ments in the year 1805. In the next year, a change of 
ministry occurred, Lord Brougham was out, and the new min- 
istry ordered Mr. Forsyth to leave the tower and take his 
"rubbish" with him. Such was the term applied by the 
ignorant parasites of the new government who had been fois- 
ted on the country by that ingenious device of modern times 
called "the will of the majority." This "rubbish," to use 
the language of the encyclopaedia, consisted of " beautiful and 
ingenious applications of the percussion principle," a prin- 
ciple which the Ordnance Department adopted afterwards 
and which was applied gradually by the army departments of 
all nations of the world. However, the inventor, who had 
refused title, wealth and honors from the greatest ruler — 
Napoleon — the world has ever had, to offer the product of 
his skill and knowledge to Britain — his country — was 
allowed to dwell in obscurity and poverty until a year previous 
to his death (June 11, 1843) when the magnanimity of the 
government accorded him ^200 ($1,000). 



William Forsyth, Q.C, LL.D., son of the late Thomas 
Forsyth of Liverpool and Nova Scotia in Canada, was born 
at Greenock, Scotland, in 18 12. He was a graduate from 
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1834 as B.A., standing third 
among the "classical tripos" and second "Senior Optime," 




COL. JOSEPH HELL EOKSVTH, OE QUEBEC 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 83 

also Chancellor's medallist and Fellow of Trinity and " pro- 
ceeded M.A."' in 1837. He entered the bar at the Inner Tem- 
ple in 1839, Northern Circuit and Queen's Counsel in 1857 
and Bencher of the Inner Temple. He was a member of 
Parliament for Marylebone and Cambridge Univ^ersity; Coun- 
sel for the Secretary of State for India and Commissioner 
for Cambridge University. He was a contributor to the 
sfreat reviews and one of the great authors of the British 
Empire. His chief works are, "On the Law of Composition 
with Creditors" (1841); " Hortensius, or the Duties of an 
Advocate" (1849); " ^^^ the Law Relating to the Custody 
of Infants'' (1850); "History of Trial by Jury" (1852); 
"Napoleon at St. Helena and Sir Hudson Low" (1853); 
"Life of Cicero" (1864); "Cases and Opinions in Constitu- 
tional Law" (1869); "Novels and Novelists of the XVIII 
Century in Illustration of the Manners and Morals of the 
Age" (1871); "Hannibal in Italy; a Historic Drama" 
(1872) ; "Essays Critical and Narrative" (1874) ; " Sclavonic 
Provinces South of the Danube" (1876). 



Sir Thomas Douglas Forsyth, C.B., K.C.S.L, etc., was 
brother of the above. In the biographical sketch of Laurie's 
"Distinguished Anglo-Indians," 2d series, p. 199, is the fol- 
lowing : " In some respects Sir Douglas Forsyth may be con- 
sidered as having been one of the most remarkable among our 
distinguished Anglo-Indians. . . . He was educated at Rugby 
(took four medals at Cambridge, and was the first in Oriental 
scholarship). He entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1848, 
when the final conquest of the Punjab was in progress and 
on the eve of the formation of the junior division of the 
Civil Service. ... At a very early stage of his career, he 
was sent to this new province, the organization of which Lord 
Dalhousie, the Viceroy, entrusted to the very ablest men at 
his disposal, and when the Mutiny broke out, nine years after 



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FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 



his arrival, he was acting as Deputy Commissioner in the Cis- 
Sutlej States ... on whose tact and firmness depended the 
attitude of the protected Sikh States. Mr. Forsyth took a 
bold initiative in calling on the Maharajah of Puttiala for 
assistance, and the appeal being promptly responded to by 
that loyal chieftain, awakened a responsive echo in the Sikh 
Chiefs of Iheend and Nabha. His measures for the defense 
of Umballa were prompt and sufficient. He raised a police 
force of Sikhs for the purpose . . . and provided for the 




security of the road from Umballa to Kurnaul up to the siege 
and capture of Delhi. The reputation he gained during the 
Mutiny ensured his rapid promotion until he became in due 
course Commissioner of Umballa. But in 1869 a still more 
important subject than the management of the Sikhs had 
come to the front ; and that was our future relation with 
Russia. Lord Mayo had just received the Ameer Shere Ali 
in durbar at Umballa and it was considered desirable to bring 
the views of the Indian government on the Central Asian 
question in a clear and unmistakable form before that of St. 
Petersburg. Mr. Forsyth was considered the most competent 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 85 

person to be intrusted with the responsible duty of Indian 
Envoy to the Russian Court. There can be no doubt he 
fully justified the confidence thus reposed in him as Jic estab- 
lished tJic very basis of tJic arrangcmoit zv/iic/i, despite the 
rapid progress of Russian arms in the interval, xvas carried 
out in the agreement tivo years ago to delimit the Afghan 
frontier by a joint eommission. The main point which he 
established was that Russia consented to respect the territory 
then in possession of Shere Ali ; and it will be found during 
the ne<rotiations ivith Russia that we have not advanced much 
beyond this stage at the present moment ^ 

" Immediately after his return to India, Mr. Forsyth was 
intrusted with a second mission, more interesting in its sur- 
roundings, if less important in its consequences than his visit 
to St. Petersburg. The travels of Mr. Shaw had introduced 
to us the little known country of Chinese, or Eastern Turk- 
estan and its famous ruler the Atalik Ghazi, or Yakoob Bey. 
An envoy from this potentate visited India and Mr. Forsyth 
was sent to return the visit to Yarkand. . . . The result of 
the mission was that he learned something definite about a 
state, which, at the time, was neither Russian nor Chinese. 
Three years later he was sent on a second mission to Kashgar, 
not merely that he might complete his observations of an 
earlier period, but also that he might acquire precise knowl- 
edge of what the future relations of Russia with this State 
would be, for at that moment Kashgar, not less than Khiva, 
stood under the menace of Russian invasion. ... His report 
on the mission forms a most useful guide to the politics, 
natural history and physical condition of Eastern Turkestan. 
For this he was made Knight-Commander of the Star of 
India. His diplomatic work did not end here for in 1875 he 
went to Burmah to obtain an explanation of the King's recep- 
tion of Lisitai and to effect a settlement of the Karennec 
question. . . . Shortly after this he retired from the service 
and since his return to England he has taken prominent and 



86 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

active part as director of several of the larger Indian rail- 
ways. In 1850, he married Alice, daughter of Thomas, and 
granddaughter of Sir Thomas Plummer, Master of the Rolls, 
by whom he had three daughters, one of whom married the 
late Sir Harry Parkes. If Sir Douglas Forsyth's character 
had to be summed up in a line it would be accurate to say 
that he was a plain, straight-dealing, truth-telling English 
gentleman, who on critical occasions exhibited the qualities 
of a hero." His life has been published recently by his 
daughter. Miss Ethel Forsyth. In addition to his other hon- 
ors not mentioned above, he was made in 1874 Additional 
Member of the Governor-General's Council. A peerage 
would have been a not too great recognition for his valuable 
service to the empire, and the majority of recent peerage 
appointments have been made for less. 



Capt. James For.svth, born in 183^, entered the British 
Indian service. He was settlement officer and deputy com- 
missioner of Nimar ; captain on the Bengal Staff ; author of 
"The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles" (1863) and " The 
Highlands of Central India, Notes on their Forests and Wild 
Tribes, Natural History and Sports" (1871). He died at 38 
Manchester Street, Manchester Square, London, Eng., May i, 
1871. 

Sir John P'orsvth, inspector general of the Medical 
Department, Bengal Army, 1857; honorary physician to 
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria (1861-1883); Companion of 
the Bath, and Knight Commander of the Star of India ; was 
born in 1799, and died at West Brighton, England, January 
14, 1883. 

William Forsyth, son of Morris Forsyth of Turriff (see 
p. 12), Aberdeenshire, was born October 24, 18 18, a graduate 



FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 87 

of the University of Aberdeen and Iulinburi;h. lie was a 
noted journalist and author, who made the Abci-dcoi Joimial 
famous, of which he was editor from 1849 ^^ 1870. He was 
author of " The Martyrdom of Kalvane" (1861) ; "Idyls and 
Lyrics" (1872), etc. He died at Richmond Hill, Aberdeen, 
June 21, 1879. ^ I'f'-' "* ^"'''1'' ^^'^1^ published in 1882, by A. 
Walker. 



Prof. Andrew Russell Forsyth, M. A., F. R. S., son of 
John Forsyth, was born in Glasgow, June 18, 1858. He 
graduated at the Liverpool College and at Trinity College, 
Cambridge University, in 1881, where he was "Senior 
Wrangler," " First Smith's Prizeman " and P^ellow of the 
College. In 1882 he was Professor of Mathematics at new 
University -College, Liverpool; in 1884 Lecturer on Mathe- 
matics at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Fellow of the 
Royal Society in 1886. He is author of a "Treatise on 
Differential Fquations " and of mathematic papers relating to 
such equations, theory of functions and theory of invarian- 
tive forms published in the "Transactions of the Royal 
Society" and "Cambridge Philosophical Society." 



The Chevalier, Major John Gerrard Forsvth, of 
Montreal (see p. 14), Knight of Sardinia, etc., was one of the 
most distinguished and gallant of Canadian soldiers. He 
received more foreign decoi-ations for military distinction 
than any other Canadian. He was born in Montreal, son of 
John Blackwood Forsyth, by Mary, daughter of Samuel 
Gerrard, first president of the J^ank of Montreal. His life is 
mentioned in the first edition of Morgan's '' Celebrated Cana- 
dians y He was major of the 57th Foot and served with most 
distinguished gallantry in the Crimean War, taking part in 
the battles of Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastapol and the 



88 FORSYTH DE FRONSAC 

Quarries. He led the storming party at the Redan, which is 
said to have been the most successful of any storming party 
in the campaign of the British in that war. He was deputed 
to lead also the storming party at Kinbourn. For the 
exemplary manner and great skill he showed in these several 
duties, performed under the surveillance of the allied sover- 
eigns, he was made a Knight with the Grand Cross of the 
Legion of Honor by the Emperor, Napoleon HI ; a Knight 
of the Order of Medjidie b}- the Sultan of Turkev ; a 
Knight with the Sardinian War Medal by King Victor Em- 
manuel, and given the medal with clasps by the British Gov- 
ernment. At the close of the war he returned to Montreal. 
He married Elizabeth Egberta, daughter of John Horseley, 
of the Madras Civil Service, and granddaughter of John Byng, 
5 th Viscount Torrington. 



Mrs. Harriette Marie Forsyth was daughter of Major- 
Gen. Joseph Scott Jewett of Scarborough, Me., who had been 
colonel of a Massachusetts Regiment in 18 19 and com- 
mander-in-chief of the General Muster of Maine Troops in 
1839. He had been Senator from the District of Maine be- 
fore 1820 to the General Court of Massachusetts at Boston, 
and a commissioner on the boundary between Maine and New 
Hampshire. His wife was Mary Parker, daughter of Robert 
Parker Erskine-Marr, of Scarborough, of the Scottish family 
of Erskine, Earls of Marr, and had married Olive, daughter 
of Hon. Roger Plaisted, son of Judge Ichabod Plaisted, who 
under the British had been Judge of the Common Pleas Court 
at York, Me., and a Royal Councillor, whose father, Capt. 
Roger Plaisted, Commandant of the Colonial P^orts at Salmon 
P^alls and Berwick, also a Royal Councillor, was killed in 
repelling an Indian attack, and is called by Williamson in his 
History of Maine " The hero of Berwick." Hon. Roger 
Plaisted 's wife was Dorcas, sister to Chief-Justice Prentiss 




BATTLE OF FOXTEXOV 



FORSYTH I)K P^RONSAC 89 

Melleq^ of Maine, in 1820, and aunt of Frederic Mellen the 
artist and Granville Mellen the poet. (leneral Jewett's 
father, Joseph Jewett, had come from Nevvburyport to Port- 
land before the American Revolution, and married Ruth 
McLaughlin of a noted Irish family, who were Lords of Clan 
Owen near Londonderry, L'eland. He was one of the 
wealthiest and one of the most reliable of the inhabitants of 
Portland — then called Falmouth ; he respected the Crown 
Government and when, for the sedition, conspiracy and politi- 
cal treachery of the people of that place, Captain Mowat, 
the British naval officer, landed and burned the town, he 
spared the residence of Mr. Jewett from esteem of his person- 
ality. Mr. Jewett's father was James Jewett, of Nevvbury- 
port, Mass., by wife, Sarah Scott, daughter of a British 
officer who transmitted through her his Solingen sword to 
her posterity as a relic of his race. The first of this family 
to America was the Hon. Maxmillian Jewett, one-time Presi- 
dent (speaker) of the General Court of Massachusetts, who 
came of a Norman French family (Jouet) from Bradford, \V. R. 
Yorkshire, to Rowley, Mass., in 1638. 

Such was the worthy and distinguished ancestr)' of Mrs. 
Harriette M. Forsyth. A biographical sketch of her has 
appeared in the New England Historical and Genealogical 
Register for 1898, the year of her death. She was of remark- 
able and noble characteristics, with dauntless and hopeful 
spirit, even under the shadow of great adversities of fortune. 
To her family she was devoted and loyal to the sublimest 
self-abnegation. She was witty, brilliant and accomplished. 
On her graduation day she was the first pupil in music and 
French, and ever after was ai)preciated among high-minded 
l)eople for those virtues that are rare at the present time 
amidst the rubbish that are filling their place. She was about 
sixty-seven years of age at the time of her death. May 10, 
1898.. 



90 FORSYTH DE FROxNSAC 

William Forsyth, one of the most distinguished botanists 
of Scotland, born at Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, in 1737. 
Studied arboriculture and after graduation was gardener to the 
Company of Apothecaries at their physic-garden in Chelsea. 
He attracted the attention of King George III who appointed 
him in 1784 Superintendent of the Royal Gardens of Ken- 
sington and St. James. In 1768 he had invented a compo- 
sition to remedy the diseases incident to fruit trees. The 
success of his experiments attracted the attention of the com- 
missioners of the land revenue in 1789 and a committee of both 
Houses of Parliament was appointed to repcjrt on the merits 
of his discovery. The result of their inquiries was a convic- 
tion of its utility, and an address was voted by the House of 
Commons to his Majesty that a reward be granted Mr. For- 
syth. In 1 79 1 and in 1802 he published works relating to 
his discovery and to arboriculture. He was a member of the 
Linnsean Society and also of other learned societies of Great 
Britain and Europe. 



The Right Hon. Thomas Spencer Forsaith, Prime 
Minister of New Zealand. He was born in 18 14 and emi- 
grated to New Zealand in 1840 as a clergyman. He w^as sub- 
proctor for the aborigines and accompanied Admiral Fitzroy, 
Governor of New Zealand, to Waikanae in 1844 to confer 
with the Maori Chiefs concerning the massacre of Wairu. 
He was elected a member of the first House of Representa- 
tives in 1854 and was appointed by the acting governor, 
Colonel Wynward, Prime Minister under the new Constitution, 
a post owing to party conflict he held but two days, the ministry 
being defeated by a vote of 22 to i i in the House of 
Representatives. 




MRS. HARRIETTE MARIE FORSYTH 




ARMS OF THE ARYAN ORDER OF 
ST. GEORGE OF THE EMPIRE 



DESCRIPTION OF ARMS 

For FoRSVTH DE Froxsac : See page 7. 

For FoRSVTH OF Tailzerton, Failzertox, axi> tmeir Sui!- 
Branx'HES: On a shield argent, a cheveron engrailed gules, between 3 
griffins segreant, vert, armed and membered gules. 

Crest for Tailzertox : A demi-griffin. vert, armed and membered 
gules. 

Crest for Failzertox: A griffin liead between two wings, dis- 
played vert, beaked gules. 

For Forsyth of Elgix, Cromarty axd Suh-Braxches : .Shield 
same as for Tailzerton and Failzerton except that the griffins are armed 
and membered sable and ducallv crowned, or. 

Crest : A demi-griffin vert, armed and membered sable, ducally 
crowned, or. 







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LORDRE SEIGNEUR- 
lAL DU CANADA. 



MEANING OF THE MOTTOES 

FoKSVTH i)K Tail/.kk'j OX (Latin) •• Instaiirator Ruinaer 
Forsyth dk Tailzrrton (Ena^lish) " Restorer of the Ruin.'" 
Forsyth ue Failzkrtox (French) •' Loyal a la Morte.'" 
Foi^sYTH DK Fah.zkrtox (En^lisli) •' Loyal unto Death.'" 
Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton (Latin) '^ Sola Nol)ilitas Virtus.'" 
Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton (English) " Honor only Noble." 
liKXNKTT. Earl of Tankarville (French) " De Bon \'ouloir servir le 

Roy." 

Bexxictt. Earl of Tankarville (English) "With good faith to serve 

the King.'" 



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CHART SHOWING THE ALLIANCE OF THREE BRANCHES OF THE FAMILY. 



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Arms of Denys. 






Arms before 1488. Arms of Family since 1488. Crest and Motto of Failzerton added in 1620. 

DAVID DE FORSYTH, LORD OF DYKES IN J57i and VICOMTE DE FRONSAC 



IN SCOTLAND. 



[See page 7.] 



IN PRANCE. 



MARGUERITE 
m. Capt. Jehan Denys of Honfleur, France, 
great-grandson of the explorer. Their heirs were 
Nicolas and Simon Denys, sons of Capt. Jacques 
Denys, Sieur de la Thibaudiere of the King's 
Guard. Nicolas Denys was Governor of Acadia 
in 1664, etc., and Vicomte de Fronsac. 

CHILDREN OF NICOLAS 

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RICHARD 
NICOLAS, d. s. p. 



MARGUERITE, m. 
Capt. James Forsaith 
of Failzerton. 



JAMES 

d. s. p. 



WILLIAM 

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BARBARA 



WILLIAM 

Lord of Dykes 



MATTHEW 

of Auchengray 



Rev. JAMES OF TAILZERTON 

Co. Stirling 



JOHN, M. P. 

for Cullen 



JAMES 

of Cromarty 

and Elgin 



ROBERT OF FAILZERTON 

Capt. JAMES OF FAILZER- 
TON, m. Marguerite, d. of 
Nicolas Denys, Vicomte de 
Fronsac. 



WALTER married MARGARET FORSAITH 
Provost of Glasgow College of Failzerton 



Capt. JAMES 
of Ayr 



Capt. ALEXANDER 
of Boston, Mass. 



Hon. MATTHEW ALEXANDER 

of Chester, N. H. 

ENSIGN WILLIAM 

of Deering, N. H. 

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THOMAS 

Chevalier de Fronsac 

FREDERIC, Vicomte de Fronsac 

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FREDERIC GREGORY, Vicomte de Fronsac 



THOMAS 
of Cork 



THOMAS SCOTT 



ALEXANDER 



ROBERT 



JOHN 
JOHN 



JOHN 



WILLIAM 



JAMES 



WILLIAM JOHN H. ANNE J. MARGARET BENNETT. MARY E. 



JAMES BENNETT 
of Boston, Mass. 



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